UK.gov chucks another £260m at MOOC-based cyber security training

The UK government has published a progress report praising its own achievements in the two years since it launched an ambitious plan to make Britain the best place to do e-commerce. The National Cyber Security Strategy (NCSS), launched in November 2011, also has the goals of making the UK more resilient to cyber attack, …

[Black Rat]

Cyber Supplier to HMG

promote take up of a "Cyber Supplier to HMG‟ badge which companies that supply cyber products and services to Government

Paris naturally

[SolidSquid]

Of course they're throwing money at this, everyone knows you need an army of MOOCs to guard any government installation

[David Pollard]

BS5750 aka ISO9000

The fanfare here resembles that at the time when quality control was being promoted some years ago. This too was to have been a requirement for government suppliers and contractors. The cost of promotional seminars alone would have been sufficient to send a book explaining QC and how to set up the essential features to every small and medium business in the country.

[Anonymous Coward]

hee hee

"HP's Archdeacon welcomed the focus on education in the government's plans."

for a moment I thought this must be an indirect reference to Martin Sadler - HP Lab's security lab manager (somewhat capable) but Archdeacon really exists - wonderful!

[Anonymous Coward]

What's wrong with a National Computer Security Strategy?

What's the difference between "cyber" and "computer", or is it just pointless jargon?

[Will Godfrey]

Re: What's wrong with a National Computer Security Strategy?

Cyber costs 10 times as much (and that's not binary)

[Destroy All Monsters]

"At a time of general austerity and cost cutting"

"Ah, yes. Let the peons think this is so. Then we can bake in glory in peace." (Exit a mysterious robed figure heading for the NYT economic opinions column)

Krugman and British Austerity

[Although Krugman] asserts that British policies have simply been to "slash spending," he neglects that Britain ignored the advice of free-market supporters by increasing tax rates significantly, such as raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 50 percent, the capital-gains-tax rate to 28 percent, and the value-added-tax rate to 20 percent. More damaging to his view, as can be seen on tables 25 and 27 of this Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) document, British spending has experienced no significant cuts and still represents a sharp increase compared to prerecession levels.

Although British spending as a percent of GDP fell mildly from 51.1 percent in 2009 to 49.8 percent in 2011, this level still signifies a massive increase in spending from 2007 levels of 43.9 percent of GDP. Similarly, although the British deficit as a percent of GDP fell from 11 percent in 2009 to 9.4 percent in 2011, this deficit still amounts to a huge surge compared to the 2007 level of only 2.8 percent and, with the exception of this recession, exceeds all other deficits in Britain since World War II.

[Mike Thomas]

Cyber Supplier to HMG‟ badge which companies that supply cyber products and services to Government - Probably more important that Public Sector start taking security seriously first - look at the outcry from the adoption of PSN standards from Local Government when these are based on normal Commercial practices.

[Mike Thomas]

what's the issue? Could anyone be harmed by this?