CyberUK 21 Britain is to spend £22m on training African and Indo-Pacific nations to stave off cyber influences from "authoritarian regimes", foreign secretary Dominic Raab said today.
"I'm very pleased to announce that the UK government will invest £22m in new funding to support cyber capacity building in those vulnerable countries," said Raab at the CyberUK conference this morning, making his single policy pledge in the speech.
The Foreign Secretary said the money will go towards "national cyber response teams" mostly in Africa, with the stated intent being "to improve cooperation on cyber investigations" into potentially nation state-backed attacks on companies and digital-dependent infrastructure.
"From my perspective, at least from a diplomatic point of view… we've got to be agile, we've got to work with traditional partners, but also with new partners. Just take ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which I mentioned earl ..
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