Looking back at the National Cyber Security Centre's sixth year and its key developments and highlights, between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022.
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Critical national infrastructure and essential services
Over the past five years the government has focused heavily on improving CNI cyber security, and the NCSC has been central to the collective efforts to “raise the bar” for resilience across the whole sector.
This included mapping UK CNI systems (including their interdependencies and supply chains) to ensure a wider understanding of what is critical and why. This year such mapping, which is enabled by the NCSC, allowed the government to identify previously unknown CNI systems and therefore improving its understanding of the landscape.
The NCSC continued to drive information-sharing groups across CNI sectors, including the Financial sector cyber collaboration centre (FSCCC), which supports industry to build and develop closer information-sharing and collaborative groups. Within the most critical sectors where there are the most significant risks, the NCSC continued to provide direct industry support with a greater focus on providing solutions at scale, such as Active Cyber Defence (ACD) services.
