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These hacks should not be a wakeup call for the UK’s public sector, or used as a demonstration of the UKs resilience to Cyber Attacks. Boards, whether public or private sector, have no choice but to wake up and address cybersecurity risk management. One can only assume the board of the British Library are taking a hard look at what they did, or could have done, to manage cyber risk. One can only assume the Parliamentary report published in December 2023 on the state of UK cyber, reflects the challenges that the British Library faces. As a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) sponsored by the Governments Department for Culture, Media and Sport, (DCMS).
The British Library is a National Institution. As the UK’s National Library it holds some of the most important records of UK history. If you want to read the Magna Carter, the first folios of Shakespeare, Chaucer’s Manuscripts, recordings from surviving members of the First and Second World War the British National Library is where you go. Recorded and digitized for the everyone.
It is concerning, that the National Library was compromised in a cyber attack, reported to be by Rhysida a Russian new kid on the block. That full services could be down for a year and the Library has to 40% of its reserves to get services back up. While little is known about the real effects of the hack, one hopes that the digital records of UK history have been left in tact.
Ted Dziekanowski Brian D. McCarthy Rich Waite, M.Ed. George Sawyer
Veritas GRC
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