Cyber Security
Making the UK the safest place to live and do business online
The UK's cyber security mission is led by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is a part of GCHQ.
The NCSC helps protect the UK's critical services from cyber attacks, manages major incidents, and improves the underlying security of the UK Internet through technological improvement and advice to citizens and organisations.
It supports the most critical organisations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). When incidents do occur, the NCSC provides effective incident response to minimise harm to the UK, helps with recovery, and learns lessons for the future.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, protecting the NHS and the health sector more widely has been the top priority for the NCSC. It has been working hard to ensure organisations can keep themselves secure.
There has also been a significant amount of support provided for organisations and businesses working from home during the pandemic, and in April the NCSC launched Cyber Aware, the UK government's advice on how to stay secure online during COVID-19. At the same time, The NCSC introduced the pioneering Suspicious Email Reporting Service, which allows the public to forward suspect emails to [email protected]. In the first four months of the service being introduced, more than two million reports were received from the public, leading to the removal of over 9,000 scams and 22,000 URLs.
You can find out more about the National Cyber Security Centre on their website.