and providing more support. We will
also focus more on supply chain risks,
testing a range of interventions to help
organisations manage the cyber security
risks posed by their suppliers, and
ensure that best practice filters down
through the supply chain.
54. More integrated and sustained
campaigns to disrupt and deter our
adversaries and protect and promote
the UK’s interests in cyberspace.
These campaigns will draw on a
fuller range of diplomatic, policy and
operational levers across government.
They will be significantly underpinned by
the establishment and expansion of the
National Cyber Force (NCF), which will
be based in Samlesbury in Lancashire.
We will make more routine use of the
NCF’s capabilities to disrupt threats
from both state and non-state actors
and to support the UK’s wider national
security interests. Our campaigns will
also benefit from major new investment
in high-end capabilities for law
enforcement at national, regional and
local levels. This will help us to tackle the
substantial threat from ransomware and
increasingly innovative cyber criminals.
We will also continue to make use of
the UK’s autonomous cyber sanctions
regime and attributions process to
impose costs on our adversaries and
call out malign and reckless attacks.
55. Putting cyber power at the heart
of the UK’s foreign policy agenda
and recognising that every part of
the strategy requires international
engagement. We will reinforce our core
alliances and engage a broader range
of countries to counter the spread of
digital authoritarianism. Over the next
few years, we will increase investment
in international programmes to support
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partner countries, helping build their
resilience and enhancing their abilities to
counter cyber threats. And we will better
leverage the full range of our domestic
strengths, including operational and
strategic communications expertise,
thought leadership, trading relationships
and industrial partnerships to support
our international goals.
Roles and responsibilities
across the UK
56. Central to our strategy will be a
whole-of-society approach to cyber. We
need to build an enduring and balanced
partnership across the public, private
and third sectors, with each playing an
important role in our national effort.
Citizens
57. This strategy aims to remove as
much of the burden of cyber security
from citizens as possible but we will all
continue to have an important role to
play. Whilst the government will do as
much as possible to stop cyber attacks
before they cause harm to people,
some threat actors will find a way to
circumvent these protections. We can
all take action to improve the security of
the assets we value in both the physical
and virtual worlds.20 That means fulfilling
our personal responsibility to take all
reasonable steps to safeguard not
only our hardware – our smartphones
and other devices – but also the data,
software and systems that afford us
freedom, flexibility and convenience
in our private and professional lives.
To support this, the government
provides technically accurate, timely
and actionable advice. Civil society
organisations and community groups
also play a major role supporting people
Cyber Aware is the government’s advice on how to stay secure online
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