Security News > 2024 > August > UK plans to revamp national cyber defense tools are already in motion

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre says it's in the planning stages of bringing a new suite of services to its existing Active Cyber Defence program.

Existing services under ACD 1.0 such as Logging Made Easy and Protective DNS are already run by external partners - CISA and Cloudflare respectively - but some, such as Early Warning, can only ever be run by the NCSC due to their very nature.

The NCSC sees itself as an organization that can recognize opportunities to add value to the market, deliver original work, and then pass off successful projects so it has the resources to do it all again, rather than being a national managed service provider, of sorts.

The NCSC announced ACD in 2016, with many of the services encompassed in the suite of offerings coming to market the following year.

There are currently 12 services operating under the ACD initiative.

Its Early Warning service might be the best known, since it's available to any UK organization with a static IP address or domain name.

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