48 Section 6 DETER 6.2.3. This strategy complements the 2013 Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, which set out the UK Government’s strategic response to cyber crime, alongside other types of serious and organised crime. The National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) that sits within the National Crime Agency (NCA) was established to lead and coordinate the national response to cyber crime. Action Fraud provides a national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime. A network of cyber crime units within Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs) provide access to specialist cyber capabilities at a regional level, supporting the NCCU and local forces. Objective 6.2.4. We will reduce the impact of cyber crime on the UK and its interests by deterring cyber criminals from targeting the UK and relentlessly pursuing those who persist in attacking us. Our approach 6.2.5. To reduce the impact of cyber crime, we will: • enhance the UK’s law enforcement capabilities and skills at national, regional and local level to identify, pursue, prosecute and deter cyber criminals within the UK and overseas; • build a better understanding of the cyber crime business model, so we know where to target interventions in order to have the most disruptive effect on criminal activity. We will use this knowledge to: - make the UK a high-cost, high-risk environment in which to operate by targeting the UK nexus of criminality, and by working with industry to reduce the ability of criminals to National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 exploit UK infrastructure; and - tackle cyber crime upstream, adding friction to the criminal business model by dismantling their infrastructure and financial networks, and wherever possible, bringing offenders to justice. • build international partnerships to end the perceived impunity of cyber criminals acting against the UK, by bringing criminals in overseas jurisdictions to justice; • deter individuals from being attracted to, or becoming involved in, cyber crime by building on our early intervention measures; • enhance collaborations with industry to provide them with proactive intelligence on the threat, and to provide us with the upstream intelligence that they possess, in order to assist with our upstream disruption efforts; • develop a new 24/7 reporting and triage capability in Action Fraud, linked to the NCSC, the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit and the wider law enforcement community, to improve support to victims of cyber crime, to provide a faster response to reported crimes and enhanced protective security advice. A new reporting system will be established to share information in real time across law enforcement on cyber crime and threats; • work with the NCSC and the private sector to reduce vulnerabilities in UK infrastructure that could be exploited at scale by cyber criminals; and • work with the finance sector to make the UK a more hostile environment for those seeking to monetise stolen credentials, including by disrupting their networks.

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