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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond has formally launched the government’s new National Cyber Security Strategy, which will set out decisive action to protect the UK economy and the privacy of British citizens, while encouraging industry to up its game to prevent damaging cyber-attacks.

Almost doubling the funding commitments of the first strategy which ran from 2011, the new plan outlines:

• how the UK will use automated defences to safeguard citizens & businesses against growing cyber threats
• support the UK’s growing cyber security industry
• develop a world-class cyber workforce
• deter cyber-attacks from criminals and hostile actors

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