Raab pledges £22m to support global cyber capacity

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced £22 million of new investment to build cyber security resilience across the world.

Speaking at the National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference, Raab outlined the UK’s vision of being a leading responsible cyber power, working with partners to shape cyberspace according to our values. Working with INTERPOL, the UK is setting up a new cyber operations hub in Africa working across Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda to support joint operations against cyber crime.

The £22 million investment in cyber capacity building will target countries in Africa, the Commonwealth and Indo-Pacific, transforming their resilience by helping build national emergency response teams and promoting future leadership by funding new Chevening scholarships.

Raab said: “We are working with like-minded partners, to make sure that the international order that governs cyber is fit for purpose. Our aim should be to create a cyberspace that is free, open, peaceful and secure, and which benefits all countries and all people. We want to see international law respected in cyberspace, just as we would anywhere else. And we need to show how the rules apply to these changes in technology, the changes in threats, and the systemic attempts to render the internet a lawless space.”