Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so
The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new report from the spending watchdog suggesting it may not achieve this goal even by 2030., the UK government pledged to have its critical functions markedly more resilient to attacks by, well, this year. However, the National Audit Office said today that meeting those targets even by 2030 would be"ambitious.
For the uninitiated, examples of the 24 ministerial departments include the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet Office, both led by ministers. Non-ministerial departments, like the Crown Prosecution Service and HM Revenue & Customs, are led by civil servants. Also assisting in the data collection was the government's Central Digital and Data Office , which by March 2024 identified at least 228 legacy IT systems across the in-scope government departments. It's believed this number is likely higher, however.
We have seen too often the devastating impact of cyber-attacks on our public services and people's lives "Today's NAO report must serve as a stark wake-up call to government to get on top of this most pernicious threat."Despite the glaring technical issues residing in the government's most critical systems, the NAO determined that the government's inability to attract the top talent for tech roles, or any talent at all in a lot of cases, was the leading risk to building cyber resilience.
The NAO noted that the cybersecurity skills gap is one experienced by many organizations, not just the UK government, whose departments acknowledge that their respective spending powers limit their ability to fill vacant posts.A quick glance at the Civil Service job ads currently open shows a series of managers and team leads with advertised salaries standing at fractions of those available in the private sector.
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