Cyber

In this blog post, we’ll provide an update on our work to develop the CAF and share how your council can start getting ready.

As our first phase of the CAF for Local Government comes to an end, we’re keen to share some insights and feedback before we move forward.

We want to set a clear standard and expectation around cyber resilience for local authorities in England, based on the established NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).

The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few months, backed by multi-year funding to the tune of £85 million.

During the cyber security discovery last year, we identified five areas of opportunity for MHCLG to support councils in improving their cyber health. One of these areas was technical remediation: providing support to councils identified through the survey on mitigating malware and ransomware.

During a Cyber discovery in 2020, a Cyber Health Framework was identified as one of the main areas of opportunity to progress into an alpha project, supporting council staff to navigate numerous and sometimes overlapping standards.

The Local Digital Collaboration Unit Cyber team has come to the end of a two-month discovery into cyber security at local authorities.

The Local Digital Collaboration Unit have published their findings from a 40-day pre-discovery into cyber security in local authorities.

The Local Digital team have started work on a pre-discovery to understand how we can better support local government on cyber security. Read about the work being planned into reducing cyber risks and becoming more cyber resilient across the sector.