UK Plans to Centralize Cybersecurity

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK announced the creation of a new national cybersecurity center  by the end of this month.

Cybersecurity currently falls under multiple agencies, including the Serious Organized Crime Agency and the Metropolitan Police e-crime unit.

The initiative is part of a u-turn in the UK government’s national strategy and an attempt to centralize cybersecurity, as described by the Guardian.

The initiative is very similar to President Barack Obama’s announcement of a new cyber coordinator and is part of a revised UK national strategy to protect government and private business from rising incidents of online attacks.

The announcement follows talks between Canada, the United States and Britain  in coordinating and preventing  state-sponsored cyber attacks and cyber terrorism. The UK announcement comes in the wake of multiple state-sponsored cyber attacks allegedly from Russia, China and North Korea.

Details of the cyber initiative and the UK’s new national strategy will be available by the end of this month.

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