King’s Speech Highlights Security Laws

Following the State Opening of Parliament, the King’s Speech on 17 July included news of significant new legislative proposals to address cybersecurity concerns, focusing on supply chain risks, particularly in the public sector, and improving incident reporting. 

What Concerns and Risks? 

The kinds of concerns and risks the new legislation has been drafted to tackle are essentially those that come from the public sector’s extensive reliance on interconnected systems and digital services. For example, public sector organisations (including healthcare, local government, and infrastructure services) manage vast amounts of sensitive data and provide essential services to the population. This, therefore, makes them prime targets for cyber-attacks, which can disrupt critical functions and compromise personal information.