The exercise follows recent research conducted by the ICAF and
Communications Management Association (CMA) which found that many
companies lack understanding of the issues involved and fail to
make cybercrime a priority issue.
The IAAC has described what it sees as a complacent attitude to
cybercrime.
“Earlier in the year ICAF and CMA conducted
research into just how fit UK plc was in the fight against cyber
attack, whether from inside or outside the organisation, across our
private and public sectors. The results were disturbing, in terms
of the extent of the threat presented at that time when contrasted
with the serious and widespread lack of corporate priority,
investment and skilled resource focused on this vital area.”
The IAAC and ICAF hope to “promote improved understanding of
cyber-security across the
Information and Communications Technologies industries.” They plan
to achieve this by involving companies and government agencies and
sending them their message that policies tackling cybercrime need
to be established. “We’ve already worked with Institute of
Directors on a guide, and also with the CBI (Confederation of
British Industry) on events. The plan now is to step up these
activities,” said the IAAC’s CEO.
The Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) is an
independent, membership
forum supported by industry and central government. It provides a
focus for the development of national and international policies on
information assurance and critical infrastructure protection. The
mission of the Institute for Communications Arbitration and
Forensics is to promote best practice in the security of
information, the resolution of ICT related disputes and the
solution of ICT related crime.
Both IAAC and ICAF are dedicated to ensuring that the
information infrastructure, on which UK organisations and citizens
are increasingly reliant, is secure against attack from terrorist
attack, criminal violation and internal abuse.
