Annual UK Cyber Report Highlights Work with International Partners, including CISA and NSA

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released its Annual Review 2020, the fourth version of its yearly report that presents key developments and highlights. Throughout its report the NCSC comments on threats and trends that it responded to, oftentimes in collaboration with international partners. These include the U.S.’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Security Agency (NSA), which have released alerts and advisories with the NCSC throughout 2020. In recognition of the report and the work it has done with the NCSC this year, CISA listed a few examples, some of which include:

• Joint Advisory AA20-245A: Technical Approaches to Uncovering and Remediating Malicious Activity, which NCSC calls “an incident response playbook … applicable to the widest set of countries and situations possible.”
• The NCSC’s Secure Design Principles blog and CISA’s Cybersecurity Best Practices for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) guide. As stated by NCSC, these publications represent a CISA-NCSC “joint venture [to] set out risks faced by ICS owners and operators … to help them design and secure ICS, mitigate risks, and protect against the ever-evolving threats.”

Read the report at the NCSC.