New cooperation announced to tackle cyber crime

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that details how the two organisations will cooperate to improve the UK’s cyber resilience.

The aim is that their working more closely together will help organisations and businesses across the country to have better protection from the activity of criminals who steal data and hold it to ransom.

The Memorandum confirms that the ICO will encourage organisations to report cyber crime to the NCA at the earliest opportunity.

They will also share information about cyber incidents with the NCA on an anonymised, systemic and aggregated basis. Where appropriate, they will also do so on an organisation specific basis to help the NCA protect the public from serious and organised crime.

See: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/09/ico-and-nca-sign-memorandum-of-understanding-for-further-collaboration-on-cyber-security/