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Take the burden of cyber security away from individuals

Giving the keynote speech at CYBERUK 2019, Jeremy Fleming said that more must be done to take the burden of cyber security away from the individual.

The director of GCHQ drew on the results of the recent UK Cyber Security survey which found that only 15 per cent of people said they knew how to protect themselves online. The audience of 2,500 people heard how GCHQ will continue to work closely with device manufacturers and online platform providers to build security into their products and services at the design stage.

Fleming shared the significant impact of the National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) Active Cyber Defence programme which uses automation to block attacks at scale in order to make the internet safer for people to use.

For the first time, he talked about how the NCSC is sharing real-time cyber security information with private sector so they can act on it. He also set out how we plan to scale this capability for all business sectors in order to build a genuinely national effort to tackle malign state cyber actors, criminal malware or people on the Dark Web trading credit card details.

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