Who's Responsible for Meeting the Cyber Threat?

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Recently an old colleague, Dr Andrew Rogoyski, came to lecture to our MSc students on how government deals with cyber security. Dr Rogoyski has studied the interactions between government and industry and his talk led to a key question for which there was a surprising range of views. The question? When and how should government get involved in cyber security?

The UK has the most Internet-centric economy in the G20 group of industrialised nations according to research by the Boston Consulting Group released in March 2012. It estimates that the UK’s internet economy was worth 121bn in 2010, more than 2,000 per person. Couple this with the knowledge that approximately 20 threats per second are discovered on the Internet, and it s not surprising that UK government lists cyber security as a Tier 1 Threat , alongside terrorism. However, recognising the threat is slightly different from actually doing something about it.

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