back to article UK.gov chucks another £260m at MOOC-based cyber security training

The UK government has published a progress report praising its own achievements in the two years since it launched an ambitious plan to make Britain the best place to do e-commerce. The National Cyber Security Strategy (NCSS), launched in November 2011, also has the goals of making the UK more resilient to cyber attack, …

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  1. Black Rat
    Paris Hilton

    Cyber Supplier to HMG

    promote take up of a "Cyber Supplier to HMG‟ badge which companies that supply cyber products and services to Government

    Paris naturally

  2. SolidSquid

    Of course they're throwing money at this, everyone knows you need an army of MOOCs to guard any government installation

  3. David Pollard

    BS5750 aka ISO9000

    The fanfare here resembles that at the time when quality control was being promoted some years ago. This too was to have been a requirement for government suppliers and contractors. The cost of promotional seminars alone would have been sufficient to send a book explaining QC and how to set up the essential features to every small and medium business in the country.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    hee hee

    "HP's Archdeacon welcomed the focus on education in the government's plans."

    for a moment I thought this must be an indirect reference to Martin Sadler - HP Lab's security lab manager (somewhat capable) but Archdeacon really exists - wonderful!

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What's wrong with a National Computer Security Strategy?

    What's the difference between "cyber" and "computer", or is it just pointless jargon?

    1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
      Unhappy

      Re: What's wrong with a National Computer Security Strategy?

      Cyber costs 10 times as much (and that's not binary)

  6. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Holmes

    "At a time of general austerity and cost cutting"

    "Ah, yes. Let the peons think this is so. Then we can bake in glory in peace." (Exit a mysterious robed figure heading for the NYT economic opinions column)

    Krugman and British Austerity

    [Although Krugman] asserts that British policies have simply been to "slash spending," he neglects that Britain ignored the advice of free-market supporters by increasing tax rates significantly, such as raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 50 percent, the capital-gains-tax rate to 28 percent, and the value-added-tax rate to 20 percent. More damaging to his view, as can be seen on tables 25 and 27 of this Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) document, British spending has experienced no significant cuts and still represents a sharp increase compared to prerecession levels.

    Although British spending as a percent of GDP fell mildly from 51.1 percent in 2009 to 49.8 percent in 2011, this level still signifies a massive increase in spending from 2007 levels of 43.9 percent of GDP. Similarly, although the British deficit as a percent of GDP fell from 11 percent in 2009 to 9.4 percent in 2011, this deficit still amounts to a huge surge compared to the 2007 level of only 2.8 percent and, with the exception of this recession, exceeds all other deficits in Britain since World War II.

  7. Mike Thomas

    Cyber Supplier to HMG‟ badge which companies that supply cyber products and services to Government - Probably more important that Public Sector start taking security seriously first - look at the outcry from the adoption of PSN standards from Local Government when these are based on normal Commercial practices.

  8. Mike Thomas

    what's the issue? Could anyone be harmed by this?

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