APPENDIX G – HMG CYBERSECURITY GUIDELINES

We have stated already that information risk management is not only about cybersecurity, but that it encompasses other areas, especially including the risks associated with people who, at the end of the day, are actually the cause of many of the information security problems. That said, cybersecurity will remain a key part of the information risk management programme for many organisations, and it would be highly remiss to ignore it.

We have already (in Chapters 10 and 11) discussed the way in which the UK government deals with information risk management in its own environment. In June 2014 the government launched a new scheme to improve and promote cybersecurity, its primary objective being ‘to make ...

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