and build resilience. Businesses and organizations must also understand that, if they are the victim of a cyber-attack, they are liable for the consequences. 3.2.3 Government The primary duty of the Government is to defend the country from attacks by other states, to protect citizens and the economy from harm, and to set the domestic and international framework to protect our interests, safeguard fundamental rights, and bring criminals to justice. As the holder of significant data and a provider of services, the Government takes stringent measures to provide safeguards for its information assets. The Government also has an important responsibility to advise and inform citizens and organizations what they need to do to protect themselves online, and where necessary, set the standards we expect key companies and organizations to meet. 3.2.4 Driving change This Strategy seeks to derive outcomes and increase capacity in both the public and private sector by looking to the market to drive the right behaviors. It is expected that commercial pressures and government- incentives will drive adequate business investment to enhance appropriate cyber security standards that will stimulate a flow of investment into our industry, and to encourage an adequate pull of skills to the sector. The Government is committed to bring about significant improvements in our national cyber security over the next five years. This ambitious and transformational programme will focus on the following three broad areas: 1. Expanded intelligence and law enforcement focus on the threats. The intelligence agencies, the ONS, CISU, Ministry of Defense, the police and other National Crime Agencies, in coordination with international partner agencies, will expand their efforts to identify, anticipate and disrupt hostile cyber activities by foreign actors, cyber criminals and terrorists. This will improve their intelligence collection and exploitation, with the aim of obtaining pre-emptive intelligence on the intent and capabilities of our adversaries. 2. Development and deployment of technology in partnership with industry, including Active Cyber Defense measures, to deepen our understanding of the threats, to strengthen the security of the public and private sector systems and networks in the face of these threats, and to disrupt malicious activity.

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