Security News > 2020 > November > Cyberup campaign: 80% of infosec pros fear they might fall foul of UK's outdated Computer Misuse Act

A majority of British infosec professionals worry about accidentally breaking the UK's antiquated Computer Misuse Act, according to an industry campaign group that hopes to reform the law.

The Cyberup campaign, which includes NCC Group, Orpheus Cyber, Context Information Security, Nettitude, F Secure and others, first wrote to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2019 urging him to update the regulations.

In its latest study, the group reckoned that 80 per cent of security professionals were worried about breaking the law, based on responses submitted on behalf of major infosec firms.

The campaign hopes to update the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for the modern era on the grounds that the law was drafted long before either modern IT architectures or modern infosec threats had been thought of.

F-Secure veep Ed Parsons told The Register he supported the Cyberup campaign, saying that today's report was also "An opportunity to remind security professionals of what this legislation is and how it applies to the activity they're undertaking in their day-to-day jobs."

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