The UK Government has officially launched GovAssure, a new regime of independent audits of government agencies’ cyber resilience, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden announced during the CYBERUK 2023 conference in Belfast, on April 19, 2023. First introduced alongside the Government Cyber Security Strategy, published in 2022, GovAssure will mandate all Whitehall departments to go through annual independent, more robust security audits, based on the guidelines set out in the Cyber Assessment Framework of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

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