UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd

The UK today launches its Government Cyber Action Plan, committing £210 million ($282 million) to strengthen defenses across digital public services and hold itself to the same cybersecurity standards it's imposing on critical infrastructure operators. The funding will establish a Government Cyber Unit, led by the UK's CISO …

[amanfromMars 1]

Let the AI Games Begin.... Citius, Altius, Fortius, Per Ardua ad Astra Beta Metadata

That's the real benchmark here. Not whether we have a plan, but whether this plan can actually plug holes faster than an army of attackers find them,” said Colette Mason, author and consultant at Clever Clogs AI.

Does anyone want to be disagreeable and posit the likely chance of success of any plan which can actually plug holes faster than an army of attackers .... or friendly sympathetic pentesters .... find them to expand and exploit and/or export them?

It is not as if it is not a vast and novel and practically unknown field of remarkably rewarding endeavour to suggest and pretend is able to be exclusively human controlled, is it ‽ .

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Let the AI Games Begin.... Citius, Altius, Fortius, Per Ardua ad Astra Beta Metadata

Whilst the silence of zero replies for unanswered awkward questions may be thought to be golden, it does shout volumes about the lead balloon nature of the subject matter and the likely successful employment and practical enjoyment of its understandably much coveted and/but zealously and jealously, securely secretly guarded and administered objects of XSSXXXXual desire.

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It really is no more simply complex than that.

[Bebu sa Ware]

stop Whitehall getting pwnd

In reading the pwnd I took for proned rather then "owned."

In the first reading—pretty much a lost cause since Profumo, I would have thought.

While the fact the UK government is owned is not much disputed; the identity of who actually owns it has its various proponents but a consortium of unscrupulous albeit incompetent interests would have to be favourite.

[Doctor Syntax]

"to improve risk identification"

Right not risk identification shouldn't be too much of a problem. The main risk, right there in plain sight, is utter dependence on commercial entities subject to the whims of an increasingly erratic foreign head of state.

The big issues are not identifying the risk but the speed at which mitigating action can be taken and the will to do that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally.

About time.

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Finally.

More likely too little too late.

[Rich 2]

Great

I’m sure a good £150 million of that will get soaked up in consultancy fees and “legal” bollox

[ecofeco]

Re: Great

At the very least.

[EnviableOne]

Correct me if i am wrong

“The Government Cyber Unit is operating within a sprawling patchwork of national and international suppliers, contractors and legacy systems holding up every digital service. You can't secure a leaky bucket by pouring in more money if you haven't mapped and patched every crack first.”

Surely you don't need to patch the cracks, as long as you know where they are.

[Anonymous Coward]

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Who orders who?

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