{"id":17521,"date":"2025-01-29T00:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/threat-of-cyber-attacks-on-whitehall-is-severe-and-advancing-quickly-nao-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T00:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:37:17","slug":"threat-of-cyber-attacks-on-whitehall-is-severe-and-advancing-quickly-nao-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/threat-of-cyber-attacks-on-whitehall-is-severe-and-advancing-quickly-nao-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall \u2018is severe and advancing quickly\u2019, NAO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had \u2018significant gaps in cyber-resilience\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is \u201csevere and advancing quickly\u201d, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned.<\/p>\n<p>The National Audit Office (NAO) found that 58 critical government IT systems independently assessed in 2024 had \u201csignificant gaps in cyber-resilience\u201d, and the government did not know how vulnerable at least 228 ageing and outdated \u201clegacy\u201d IT systems were to cyber-attack. The NAO did not name the systems for fear of helping attackers choose targets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/29\/cyber-attack-threat-uk-government-departments-whitehall-nao\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d26756f3d4f8a6ba19709483a7c29f0241d4cbd9\/0_28_4546_2729\/master\/4546.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=87f5ef03b20f0feadde023474abe1cdc\" title=\"Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall \u2018is severe and advancing quickly\u2019, NAO says\" \/>Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had \u2018significant gaps in cyber-resilience\u2019<br \/>\nThe threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is \u201csevere and advancing quickly\u201d, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned.<br \/>\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) found that 58 critical government IT systems independently assessed in 2024 had \u201csignificant gaps in cyber-resilience\u201d, and the government did not know how vulnerable at least 228 ageing and outdated \u201clegacy\u201d IT systems were to cyber-attack. The NAO did not name the systems for fear of helping attackers choose targets. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had \u2018significant gaps in cyber-resilience\u2019 The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is \u201csevere and advancing quickly\u201d, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) found &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/threat-of-cyber-attacks-on-whitehall-is-severe-and-advancing-quickly-nao-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall \u2018is severe and advancing quickly\u2019, NAO says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}