• Support all parts of UK society to protect themselves by providing tailored expertise and unique knowledge that citizens, businesses and organisations across the UK can use to protect themselves and help make the UK a safer place for everyone online. • Providing UK sovereign capabilities through the NCSC’s National Crypt-Key Centre, which protects the critical information and services on which the UK military and national security community rely, including from attack by our most capable adversaries. • Providing technical input to HMG policy and regulation on the issues of most importance for cyber security by providing policy leads across Whitehall with authoritative technical input and threat assessment derived from the NCSC’s core capabilities, supporting development and implementation of policies and regulations to keep the UK’s citizens, organisations and interests digitally secure. • Supporting growth in cyber skills and investment by providing the technical underpinning for every level of cyber education and engaging and supporting industry, catalysing investment into the cyber sector. The NCSC will also contribute to the evaluation of progress against the objectives of this national cyber strategy through NCSC Assessments, the UK’s editorially-independent cyber assessments function. 41