Ministers need to speed up work on cyber-security because the public and a vast swathe of business have yet to appreciate the threats posed by online crime, a government adviser has said.
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones said the strategy was heading in the right direction but needed a push to raise awareness because people were still doing "silly things".
"I think the direction is right but the speed is not nearly enough ... it needs much more momentum behind this," said Neville-Jones.
She suggested the need for some advertising that would stick in everyone's minds, like the "clunk-click" campaign to encourage people to wear seatbelts. The government could not do the work by itself, she said, but it did need to take a proper lead.
"People are entitled to look to government to take a lead and impress upon people the importance of this. It has a responsibility to strengthen its own systems, and ... it needs to strengthen rather modest police capability.
"I do think that the Cabinet Office, which is in the lead on this, needs to plot some metrics, have a timetable of various stages that need to be achieved, and audit the progress."
Neville-Jones is a former security minister who is now the government's special representative to business on... Source/Origin >> Read More
