Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster praises government collaboration in face of incident.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said the ‘CrowdStrike incident’ wasn’t a cyber-attack, but should be taken seriously as it caused ripples right across the country and the world.
Saying that government worked with CrowdStrike to manage the fallout of that, he detailed the lessons learned as being in collaboration, partnerships and responsibility.
“First, you’ve got to bring people together and coordinate,” McFadden said. “We had the National Cyber Security Centre, the Cabinet Office - the department I lead - Microsoft and CrowdStrike, all the different parts of government to understand what the incident was.
“Secondly, Government cannot do it alone. You have to have good partnerships between the public and private sector; and thirdly, even though it exposed a responsibility, there is also a prize to be grasped here.”
He said that interconnectedness requires greater protection and powers of recovery, and if there is investment in cybersecurity services, then better support can be offered to those that need them.
“Just think about previous waves of interconnectedness and how the UK led the way in protecting them. Think about how Lloyds of London, for example, insured shipping right across the globe, well so too can the UK play a major role in cyber security. A new kind of technological insurance.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
