The
new National Cyber Security Strategy will provide funding to
develop automatic defenses to help protect British businesses
and citizens online, and beef up the country's cyber workforce
to help defend against attacks.
Hammond will outline how the new funding will help protect
Britain in a world where a growing number of connected devices
makes both key national infrastructure in energy and transport,
and private citizens, more vulnerable.
The 1.9 billion pound investment over the next five years
represents a doubling of the funding provided for cyber defense
over the 2011-2016 period.
"We must now keep up with the scale and pace of the threats we
face. Our new strategy ... will allow us to take even greater
steps to defend ourselves in cyberspace and to strike back when
we are attacked," Hammond said in the statement.
Under the new cyber plan, the government is also setting up a
new Cyber Security Research Institute to bring together
university expertise and an Innovation Centre in Cheltenham to
help grow cyber start-up companies.
That will run alongside Britain's National Cyber Security Centre
which opened in October at part of its GCHQ security agency and
has about 700 staff.
(Reporting by Sarah Young; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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