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 standards
The current internet relies on protocols designed by its founders in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s a reflection of the vision of technologists who did not want centralised control and who set out to design an architecture that was open, resilient, and neutral. It is clear that China is seeking to supplant the originating, founding principles that underpin today’s technologies and implant their authoritarian traits of surveillance and control into tomorrow’s. This can be seen through its “standards strategy”, including filling key positions on Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) and other international forums, and their proposals of a “top down” and “centralised control” approach for the design of the future internet.
