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UK government strengthens defence and security ties with Poland

Land June 25, 2018

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has arrived in Warsaw alongside the Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, to strengthen defence, security and cyber ties with Poland. The two representatives will join their counterparts Jacek Czaputowicz and Mariusz Błaszczak in Helenow, just outside Warsaw. The visit is the latest in a series of discussions that ...

MEPs call for stronger cyber defence as threats increase

Homeland June 18, 2018

The European Parliament has voted on a resolution to establish a more robust defence in the face of increasing malicious cyber attacks. The cyber defence resolution, passed by 476 votes to 151, with 36 abstentions, recognised that Russia, China and North Korea, in addition to non-state actors, had conducted malicious cyber attacks ...

European consortium to explore cyber security and the Internet of Things

Homeland May 21, 2018

A European consortium comprised of twelve industry and academic partners from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK has been appointed to Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, to begin work on Brain-IoT. The focus here is “interoperability and cyber security” in the era of the Internet ...

New rules come into force to protect UK’s critical infrastructure

Homeland May 16, 2018

New measures to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure and digital services from cyber attacks and computer network failure are now in force. Bosses of firms in health, water, energy, transport and digital infrastructure will now be expected to have robust safeguards in place against cyber threats and report breaches and network ...