Policy paper

US-UK cybersecurity co-operation: fact sheet

This fact sheet follows meetings between Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama on how to work together for cybersecurity.

• From: Cabinet Office and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Published: 16 January 2015

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Fact sheet: United States-United Kingdom cybersecurity cooperation

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/16/fact-sheet-us-united-kingdom-cybersecurity-cooperation

Details

The United States and the United Kingdom agree that the cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges. President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron recognized that the inherently international nature of cyber threats requires that governments work together to confront those threats.

Read the press release on the Prime Minister’s visit to the US on cyber security.

This fact sheet outlines how the US and UK governments will strengthen and deepen their extensive cybersecurity cooperation through:

• improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity
• strengthening cooperation on cyber defence
• supporting academic research on cybersecurity issues

Published 16 January 2015