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UK's National Cyber Security Centre highlights the success of its Active Cyber Defence program.

The UK's National Cyber Security Center Active Cyber Defense program is an ambitious project designed to improve the security posture of an entire nation.

"The aim of the Active Cyber Defense program,"says the NCSC's fourth ACD annual report, "Is to 'Protect the majority of people in the UK from the majority of the harm caused by the majority of the cyberattacks the majority of the time.'".

"A key milestone for PDNS," comments David Carroll, managing director of Nominet Cyber Security, "Was the response to SolarWinds. Proving to be a treasure trove for cyber analysts, the PDNS dataset was able to help NCSC identify the scope of vulnerability across the public sector to inform its incident response."

"PDNS," says the NCSC, "Is a quick and convenient way to identify public bodies using vulnerable technologies or affected by malware. PDNS provides a record of historic activity for incident response and research. It allows the NCSC to monitor the remediation of incidents and vulnerabilities over time. It also provides a general picture of UK government cyber maturity by revealing the technologies in use in the public sector."

ACD's Cyber Threat Intelligence Adaptor is a threat intelligence feed delivered by the NCSC. It integrates with a variety of SIEMs to detect known IOCs within the customer's log data.

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