NCSC Annual Review 2022
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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Technology
Introduction
This year the NCSC continued to develop insights, capabilities and principles to help ensure critical technology was secure, resilient and reliable in order to protect data, devices and services that underpin the UK’s national, economic and security interests, while preserving the values of a free and open cyberspace.
From the development of blogs and research papers that informed new legislation, regulation or codes of practice, to creating tools and guidance that monitored, identified or fixed vulnerabilities, the NCSC continued to innovate and build capability, while influencing those around it to further the UK’s cyber security interests.
This year the NCSC saw the dependence of society on technology continue to become more embedded in the daily lives of citizens, businesses and essential services. Technology continued, in part, to be the subject of geopolitical competition between states who see, and begin to realise, the opportunities of technology advantage.
As this competition grows and becomes more diffuse, the UK faces an increasingly fragmented technology ecosystem which creates risks for interoperability and the values that underpin it.
This chapter sets out how the NCSC continued to innovate and build capability to help keep up and ahead of the ever-evolving threats, risks and vulnerabilities, while providing insight, evidence and expertise to help the UK adopt a values-driven approach to the development of future technologies.