eightiescalling
Senior Member
I saw an article today about the UK government supposedly doing vulnerability scans across ALL UK infrastructure.
While an admirable goal when trying to understand the risk a nations digital population pose to it (and themselves and each other), it poses an interesting question on what sort of next steps they may do. While the NCSC blog refers to using the scans to "help system owners understand their security posture on a day-to-day basis" I can't see anything on how exactly that is done.
I wondered if there were any (publicly admitted!) comparable programmes being run in other countries and how they'd gone/been accepted?
British govt is scanning all Internet devices hosted in UK
The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Scanning the internet for fun and profit
Ian Levy explains how the NCSC's new internet scanning capability will help us understand the UK's vulnerability to cyber attack.
www.ncsc.gov.uk
While an admirable goal when trying to understand the risk a nations digital population pose to it (and themselves and each other), it poses an interesting question on what sort of next steps they may do. While the NCSC blog refers to using the scans to "help system owners understand their security posture on a day-to-day basis" I can't see anything on how exactly that is done.
I wondered if there were any (publicly admitted!) comparable programmes being run in other countries and how they'd gone/been accepted?