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with appropriate authorities across the world. The National Cyber Security Centre’s
Incident Management team operates 24/7, and is the national point of contact for any
requests for assistance. At the OSCE, the UK has supported efforts on Confidence
Building Measure 8 on the creation of a list of national policy and technical points of
contact. And in NATO, the NCSC has encouraged members of the Alliance to
embrace their role as lead responders to global attacks from state and non-state
actors.
We also have set up a 24/7 point of contact within the National Crime Agency to
exchange information with States to tackle all cybercrime related threats, in
accordance with the Budapest Convention.
Norm 9 (UNGGE 2015 report, paragraph 13i) – States should take reasonable
steps to ensure the integrity of the supply chain, so end users can have
confidence in the security of ICT products. States should seek to prevent the
proliferation of malicious ICT tools and techniques and the use of harmful
hidden functions;
As risks, threats and technology change it is important that states are able to
respond. That is why the United Kingdom has undertaken a thorough review of the
5G supply chain to ensure the secure and resilient rollout of 5G. The Telecoms
Supply Chain Review introduced a tougher, strengthened new security regime for
our telecoms infrastructure.
Secure by Design: We are addressing this through implementation of our national
strategy, and investment in our national programme. The NCSC has produced
public advice and guidance aimed at all sections of the UK economy and society;
this has helped improve awareness across the UK.
The UK published a Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security in October 2018.
This outlines 13 high-level and outcome focused guidelines that manufacturers
should embed into their products to make them ‘secure by design’ and to take the
burden from consumers having to secure their own products. We have made this
available for international partners. It has been translated into Japanese, Mandarin,
German, Korean, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
In the UK, we are preparing to place the priority guidelines of the Code of Practice on
a regulatory footing. Alongside this, one area we are actively exploring is how to
build an effective labelling scheme that will inform consumers and retailers of
manufacturers’ cyber security standards, without overburdening consumers.
We are supporting manufacturers of all sizes to implement the Code, which is why
we published a mapping document to support implementation. A number of core
manufacturers (including Centrica Hive and HP Inc.) have already made a formal
pledge, and support from DCMS and NCSC is available to manufacturers and
retailers who wish to make a public commitment to proactively protect their
consumers in advance of expectations being mandatory.
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