"The UK government has unveiled a £210m Cyber Action Plan to reinforce IT security resilience across the nation's public services, with a new central Cyber Unit to be established to coordinate risk management and incident response across departments. Westminster said that its new plan would "rapidly improve cyber defences across government departments and the wider public sector". Cyber attacks can take vital services offline in a matter of seconds -"
"Ultimately, it said, it wants to make sure ordinary people can use online public services with confidence, whether they are applying for benefits, paying taxes, or accessing healthcare services - this is part of a wider ambition to save up to £45bn by digitising Britain's public services. "This plan sets a new bar to bolster the defences of our public sector, putting cyber criminals on warning that we are going further and faster to protect the UK's businesses and public services alike,""
The plan allocates £210m to reinforce IT security resilience across public services and establishes a central Cyber Unit to coordinate risk management and incident response across departments. It aims to rapidly improve cyber defences across government and the wider public sector to reduce downtime from attacks and shorten recovery times. The policy seeks to ensure citizens can use online public services—benefits, taxes, healthcare—with confidence and to support a broader digital transformation projected to save up to £45bn. Centralised action will address severe complex cyber challenges that individual departments cannot resolve and enable faster reactions to evolving threats.
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