Policy paper

Call for views on software resilience and security for businesses and organisations

This publication seeks views on the cyber security risks of software used by businesses and organisations, and where government should seek to mitigate them.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Published: 6 February 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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Call for views on software resilience and security for businesses and organisations

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The impact of rapid digitisation has been felt across all sectors of our economy and society, and it is essential that this digital world in which we live and work is resilient to cyber threats and disruption.

To strengthen the UKs resilience, we must ensure that the digital products and services we use are secure by design, and software is a foundational and critical digital tool on which our economy now relies. But we must also help the organisations involved in the development, distribution, maintenance and use of these products and services manage the risks associated with software.

Through this call for views, we want to better understand the nature of software risks as a whole to UK organisations, and where government should focus on mitigating them. This call for views focuses on software risks across the breadth of the software lifecycle.

The government responded to this call for views on 23 January 2024.

Read the government’s response.

This call for views closed at 11.45pm on Monday 1 May 2023.

Published 6 February 2023