Cyber Action Plan for Wales: Two Years On

Post by Cyber Co-ordination and Leadership Team, Welsh Government

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Two years ago we launched the Cyber Action Plan for Wales, setting out our vision that Wales prospers through cyber resilience, talent and innovation.

The Plan’s four priority areas are to:

  1. Grow our cyber ecosystem
  2. Build a pipeline of cyber talent
  3. Strengthen our resilience
  4. Protect public services
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Cyber Action Plan for Wales – One year on

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It’s a year since we published the Cyber Action Plan for Wales which sets out our vision that Wales prospers through cyber resilience, talent and innovation.

The Plan has four priority areas to help us deliver our vision:

  • growing our cyber ecosystem;
  • building a pipeline of cyber talent;
  • strengthening our cyber resilience; and,  
  • protecting our public services.

You can find out more about why we’re focusing on these priorities on our previous blogs.

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Guest Blog: Cyber In Wales: Investing in Growth

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This month we published our Cyber Action Plan for Wales. As we move to delivering the actions in the plan, we asked Pete Burnap, Professor of Data Science & Cybersecurity at Cardiff University, and Director of the Cyber Innovation Hub – which was also launched this month – to write a guest blog about the work they’re doing and how partnerships and collaboration will help  deliver the ambition in the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.

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Cyber: Publishing an Action Plan for Wales

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This week we’re pleased to share that we have published the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.

Over the last few months, we’ve kept you up to date with the development of the Cyber Action Plan through a series of blogs. In this series we have explained what cyber is, how the cyber ecosystem works, why we need a Cyber Action Plan and outlined what we think the priority areas are for cyber in Wales. 

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Cyber: Defining our priorities for Wales

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Back in February we wrote a blog telling you about the development of a Cyber Action Plan for Wales. Since then, we have been working with stakeholders to develop the plan. This has included discussions with industry experts, our academic partners including colleagues from the new Cyber Innovation Hub and digital and technology leads from the public sector.  As part of these discussions we developed a consensus on what we believe are the priority areas for cyber in Wales. These are:

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Cyber: Planning today for a prosperous future

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In our increasingly digital world, cyber is a word we’re hearing about more and more cyber skills, cyber safety, online crime and cyber-attacks.

In this blog, we want to tell you about the development of a Cyber Action Plan for Wales, a commitment in our Digital Strategy for Wales.

This will be the first in a series of blogs about the action plan and we want to start by explaining a bit about what we mean by cyber, why we need an action plan and who the plan is for.

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