UK cyberdefence strategy fixated on top-down security, say MPs

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3461457/uk-cyberdefence-strategy-fixated-on-top-down-security-say-mps/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
30 July 2013

The UK Government’s much-vaunted Cyber Security Strategy is overly-fixated 
on high-level defence at the expense of investing in basic policing and 
consumer protection, the Home Affairs Select Committee has warned.

The Committee’s report is not the first time the narrow focus of the 
Government’s cyber-defence strategy has been pulled apart, but at 165 
pages it is perhaps the most comprehensive and uncomfortable analysis to 
date.

The fundamental problem recounted to the Committee by expert witnesses was 
that the lion’s share of the £650 million ($980 million) earmarked for the 
Strategy had been eaten by GCHQ and the other intelligence agencies, 
leaving policing to pick up much smaller sums.

According to one Committee witness, Commissioner Adrian Leppard of the 
City of London Police, a quarter of his workforce of specialised digital 
police could be axed in spending cuts.

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