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Section 6
DETER
Measuring success
6.2.6. The Government will measure its
success in reducing cyber crime by assessing
progress towards the following outcomes:
• we have a greater disruptive effect
on cyber criminals attacking the UK,
with higher numbers of arrests and
convictions, and larger numbers of
criminal networks dismantled as a
result of law enforcement intervention;
• there is improved law enforcement
capability, including greater capacity
and skills of dedicated specialists and
mainstream officers and enhanced
law enforcement capability amongst
overseas partners;
• there is improved effectiveness and
increased scale of early intervention
measures dissuades and reforms
offenders; and
• there are fewer low-level cyber
offences as a result of cyber criminal
services being harder to access and
less effective.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A VICTIM OF
CYBER CRIME
If you are a member of the public and
you believe that you are the victim of
cyber crime, or cyber enabled fraud, you
should contact Action Fraud.
You can report the incident using Action
Fraud’s online fraud reporting tool
anytime of the day or night, or call 0300
123 2040. For further information see
www.actionfraud.police.uk
The Action Fraud service is run by the
City of London Police.
6.3.
COUNTERING HOSTILE FOREIGN
ACTORS
6.3.1. We need to bring to bear the full
range of government capabilities to counter
the threat posed by hostile foreign actors
that increasingly threaten our political,
economic and military security. Working
with international partners will be key to
our success, and greater emphasis will
be placed on engaging them and working
with them to counter the threat. Much of
this action will not be in the public domain.
Our investment in sovereign capabilities
and partnerships with industry and the
private sector will continue to underpin our
ability to detect, observe and identify this
constantly evolving activity against us.
Objective
6.3.2. We will have strategies, policies
and priorities in place for each adversary,
to ensure a proactive, well-calibrated and
effective approach is taken to counter the
threat and in order to drive down the number
and severity of cyber incidents in the future.
Our approach
6.3.3. To reduce the cyber threat from
hostile foreign actors, we will:
• reinforce the application of
international law in cyberspace in
addition to promoting the agreement
of voluntary, non-binding norms of
responsible state behaviour and the
development and implementation of
confidence building measures;
• work with international partners,
particularly through collective defence,
cooperative security, and enhanced
deterrence that our membership of
NATO affords;
• identify both the unique and
generic aspects of our adversaries’
cyber activity;
National Cyber Security Strategy 2016