{"id":3981,"date":"2019-04-29T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"cybersecurity-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/04\/29\/cybersecurity-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords.\u00a0 You can download the top 100,000 from the\u00a0National Cyber research centre.<\/a>
\nFor information on how common identity\u00a0and online fraud is see CIF<\/a>AS research summaries.\u00a0 This also gives basic data on the most frequently targeted groups.<\/p>\n

How much do people know about cybersecurity?
\nThe same centre also released the 2018 cyber security survey which\u00a0found that 48% of those<\/a>\u00a0who responded found it confusing to know what to do to protect themselves online.
\nThis echoes\u00a02017 US research from Pew\u00a0<\/a>which found low levels of knowledge among the American public.\u00a0 Take their online test to see how you compare!
\nIf you explore the website you can find\u00a0more consumer research on attitudes<\/a>\u00a0and experiences of internet security.<\/p>\n

Is there a general lack of skills?
\nIn July 2018 the House of Lords\/House of Commons Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy\u00a0Cyber Security Skills and the UK\u2019s Critical National Infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0raised concerns about a lack of \u00a0IT specialists in industry \u00a0to support the future national infrastructure. It had proposals for future education.<\/p>\n

Also on this theme see\u00a0 recent surveys on\u00a0cyberskills in the UK labour market<\/a>\u00a0and the \u00a0summary of responses to the\u00a0National Cyberskills strategy<\/a>\u00a0on how to increase capability<\/p>\n

Recently the Financial Conduct Authority has been conducting audits of skills within UK firms. Get\u00a0access to their findings form the website<\/a><\/p>\n

Globally a report by the non-profit association ISC in 2018\u00a0 revealed a worldwide cybersecurity skills gap. “Based upon feedback from almost 1,500 ICT workers around the world, the report on Cybersecurity Workforce\u00a0stated that almost two-thirds of businesses believe they have a cybersecurity skills gap.<\/a><\/p>\n

For general advice on passwords try the\u00a0Get safe online website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords.\u00a0 You can download the top 100,000 from the\u00a0National Cyber research centre. For information on how common identity\u00a0and online fraud is see CIFAS research summaries.\u00a0 This also gives basic data on the most frequently targeted groups. How much do people know about cybersecurity? The same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,14,9],"tags":[209,61,65,93],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-management","category-media-and-communication","category-security-and-risk","category-labour-market-studies","tag-cyber-security","tag-internet","tag-labour-market","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}