Britain Debuts Early Revamp of Government Cyber Action Plan

Experts Salute Urgency and Direction of Travel, Question Funding and Enforcement Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • January 8, 2026

The United Kingdom is calling for a do-over for plans to secure government systems and infrastructure in a strategy that calls out "repeated, systemic failures in our digital resilience."

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The Government Cyber Action Plan, presented Tuesday to Parliament, is an early refresh of the existing strategy, introduced in 2022 by the then Conservative government and meant to run until 2030. The same holds true of the 2022 National Cyber Strategy, which the government plans to revamp this spring.

The revamped government cyber action plan introduced Tuesday by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government is mandatory for building more modern, digital government services, said Ian Murray, a minister of state for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ...