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Synnovis ransomware and the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: NIS/NIS2 alignment, expanded supply chain duties, stronger regulators and incident reporting—towards a GDPR-style compliance moment?

Published on: 12 August 2024

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More organisations across the UK look set to come under stricter cyber security oversight with the proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. A string of cyber incidents (not always criminal breaches) has struck the Electoral Commission, the Ministry of Defence, the private pathology provider Synnovis and, most widely, the repercussions of CrowdStrike’s failed cyber security update. Enquiries remain in progress, notably for Synnovis. Together, these episodes—and the scant outline of the new Bill—prompt fresh scrutiny of how cyber security is regulated in the UK.

UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

In July 2024, at the opening of Parliament, the new government unveiled its Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. But what is it seeking to deliver? With current rules ‘now [having] been superseded in the EU’, the UK appears intent on closing the gap. The framework must be refreshed ‘to ensure that our infrastructure and economy is not comparably more vulnerable’, the briefing stated. Ministers also signalled that the Bill will extend beyond existing law, sweeping in a greater span of the supply chain to critical infrastructure...

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