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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
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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.