34 Section 5 DEFEND • harden the UK’s critical infrastructure and citizen-facing services against cyber threats; and • disrupt the business model of attackers of every type, to demotivate them and to reduce the harm that their attacks can cause. Approach 5.1.3. In pursuit of these aims, the Government will: • work with industry, especially Communications Service Providers (CSPs), to make it significantly harder to attack UK internet services and users, and greatly reduce the prospect of attacks having a sustained impact on the UK. This will include tackling phishing, blocking malicious domains and IP addresses, and other steps to disrupt malware attacks. It will also include measures to secure the UK’s telecommunications and internet routing infrastructure; • increase the scale and development of GCHQ, Ministry of Defence and NCA capabilities to disrupt the most serious cyber threats to the UK, including campaigns by sophisticated cyber criminals and hostile foreign actors; and • better protect government systems and networks, help industry build greater security into the CNI supply chain, make the software ecosystem in the UK more secure, and provide automated protections for government online services to the citizen. National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 5.1.4. Where possible, these initiatives will be delivered with or through partnerships with industry. For many, industry will be designing and leading implementation, with the Government’s critical contribution being expert support, advice and thought-leadership. 5.1.5. The Government will also undertake specific actions to implement these measures, which will include: • working with CSPs to block malware attacks. We will do this by restricting access to specific domains or web sites that are known sources of malware. This is known as Domain Name System (DNS) blocking / filtering; • preventing phishing activity that relies on domain ‘spoofing’ (where an email appears to be from a specific sender, such as a bank or government department, but is actually fraudulent) by deploying an email verification system on government networks as standard and encouraging industry to do likewise; • promoting security best practice through multi-stakeholder internet governance organisations such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which coordinates the domain name system), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the European Regional Internet Registry (RIPE) and engagement with stakeholders in the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF); • working with law enforcement channels in order to protect UK citizens from being targeted in cyber attacks from unprotected infrastructure overseas;

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