UK Government Vows To Sink $2.3 Billion Into New Cybersecurity Plan

The UK government has promised to spend nearly $2.3 billion over the next five years to try to tackle the growing problem of cyber attacks in the country. An anonymous reader writes: Recent research suggested that Britain is particularly susceptible to data breaches involving compromised employee account data. Nonetheless, chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond claimed on Tuesday that the country is "an acknowledged global leader in cyber security." Number 11's occupant crowed that the previous Tory-led coalition government had chucked 860 million pound at the problem, but Hammond then undermined himself somewhat by adding that "we must now keep up with the scale and pace of the threats we face." Which underlines the fact that the government is playing catch-up in its race against cybercrimes.

UK Cybersecurity Plan

[sinij]

Does UK Cybersecurity Plan includes new provisions in the Snooper's Charter to mandate rectally inserted individual monitoring devices? Because if not, it doesn't go far enough in destroying privacy and dignity.

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[serviscope_minor]

Does UK Cybersecurity Plan includes new provisions in the Snooper's Charter to mandate rectally inserted individual monitoring devices?

Not yet, but with May in charge, it won't be long.

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[Big Hairy Ian]

@ the rate the pound is falling £2.3 Billion will be enough to buy a bag of chips

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[tomxor]

Well... May is in power now... Rectal monitoring implants are now mandatory from birth. If you did not receive one at birth then you are a triple plus pirate terrorist criminal monkey and should be extradited to America, uh i mean the ministry of cognitive correctional sciences to be suppressed, uh educated I mean ... you savage you, with your unbackdoored OS and sellotape over your camera, what a monster, think of the children!

History

[LQ]

The UK government has such a great history of wise IT investment that I'm sure this new money will be well spent.

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[ColdWetDog]

Well, the title did say 'sink', did it not?

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[Anonymous Coward]

One of the reasons so many of these endeavors go pear-shaped, is that parliament/legislature is populated with lawyers, who make a living out of the belief that reality is relative and malleable by language, so if they say it is so, it will be so. Reality disagrees.

Correct use of the word

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"UK Government Vows To Sink $2.3 Billion Into New Cybersecurity Plan"

Yes, and "sink" is probably the exact word that should be used to describe where the money will go.

Apparently, "flush" doesn't sound as good in a headline.

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[johanw]

Girls can do that too, as there are many videos on the internet showing that.

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[AmiMoJo]

$2.3bn is barely enough to make a dent in the insecurity efforts of GCHQ. As long as they are making us more vulnerable to attack we will need a lot more than this to stand much chance.

Just like Obamacare

[DidgetMaster]

I think the U.S. spent more than that on the healthcare.gov website and it was awful. But that is what you get when politicians start throwing money at a problem. Funny, they never seem to throw it at someone who could actually help solve it. Instead it is just one of their friends who doesn't have a clue about what the problem really is, let alone be capable of finding an elegant solution.

At least it is dollars

[OneHundredAndTen]

For, if it were pounds, in a few months it would allow them to buy more than a few PCs.

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[AHuxley]

Join your local hero battalions, hero-companies and hero-platoons and fight a cyber war?.
Reminds me of the Pals battalion of WW1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
"specially constituted battalions of the British Army comprising men who had enlisted together in local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues ("pals"), rather than being arbitrarily allocated to battalion"
Everyone interesting in the UK will just use a VPN.
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