Major cyber attack defence laws announced – as Brexit to blame for growing risk

Major cyber attack defence laws announced – as Brexit to blame for growing risk

Brexit has made the UK more vulnerable to cyber attacks, a tech minister has said. Feryal Clark said Britain’s IT security has been behind the EU for years – and new laws to fill the gap are likely to take another two years to come into force. She said laws in the EU have been updated to combat growing threats since Brexit but that the UK has not been left “adequately protected”. Speaking to the Mirror, the Minister for Cybersecurity recounted t…