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The sixth issue of the UK Resilience Academy’s Lessons Digest is now available and highlights the importance of collaboration and coordination against cyber attacks.
The central learning analysis in this edition summarises learning themes and shares transferable lessons from seven cyber incidents, to support and inform continual improvements in cyber resilience. It also includes articles that explore the UK’s cyber landscape, highlight lived experience of responding to and recovering from a cyber attack, and provides actionable academic insights.
“Despite the complex, dynamic nature of the cyber threat, the lessons brought together in this edition emphasise that the responsibility for cyber resilience is a shared one. As you will see from the transferable learning in this edition’s analysis, technical expertise, training and the active execution of basic cyber hygiene (such as the timely installation of software updates), all play critical roles in collective cyber resilience.”
Report authors Ian Sirrell and Lianna Roast, UKRA.
The Digest sets out six dominant learning themes that were identified through the analysis of the seven source documents detailing a combined total of 100 findings, lessons and recommendations from significant cyber incidents between 2017 and 2023.
All incidents, taken from different sectors and with varied cyber attack methodologies, had direct or indirect impacts for UK citizens, services or businesses. The themes included cyber security and hygiene, planning and preparedness, incident management, recovery, IT infrastructure and governance.
The 38-page document is freely available from the UK Resilience Academy.
Read more about the evolution of the Emergency Planning College to the new UK Resilience Academy here – UK Resilience Academy, more than just a rebrand.
