Security News > 2020 > November > £1.3bn National Cyber Security Strategy? Meh – we're looking at 2021, Cabinet Office shrugs
How is Britain's £1.3bn National Cyber Security Strategy going? Nobody really cares any more - even the Cabinet Office, judging by its latest progress report.
In a report issued this week the Cabinet Office waffled for several tens of pages saying how much work Britain's various governmental organs had done that vaguely fits under the banner of the National Cyber Security Strategy.
Penny Mordaunt MP, the Paymaster General said in the report's foreword: "Our approach to cyber security strategy post 2021 will reinforce the outcome of the current Integrated Review of the UK's foreign, defence, security and development policy."
While the Cabinet Office progress report contains some details of things achieved over the past year, the report does not relate these to any of its "Strategic outcomes" beyond merely reproducing them as haphazard bullet points.
Three years later the National Audit Office huffed that the Cabinet Office wasn't doing very well on the plan, known by then as the National Cyber Security Programme - but said that embarrassed civil servants had retreated behind unspecified "Security reasons" to gag the NAO from saying precisely what had gone wrong.