The exercise follows recent research conducted by the ICAF and Communications Management Association (CMA) which found that many companies lack understanding of the issues involved and fail to make cybercrime a priority issue.
The IAAC has described what it sees as a complacent attitude to cybercrime.
“Earlier in the year ICAF and CMA conducted research into just how fit UK plc was in the fight against cyber attack, whether from inside or outside the organisation, across our private and public sectors. The results were disturbing, in terms of the extent of the threat presented at that time when contrasted with the serious and widespread lack of corporate priority, investment and skilled resource focused on this vital area.”
The IAAC and ICAF hope to “promote improved understanding of cyber-security across the
Information and Communications Technologies industries.” They plan to achieve this by involving companies and government agencies and sending them their message that policies tackling cybercrime need to be established. “We’ve already worked with Institute of Directors on a guide, and also with the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) on events. The plan now is to step up these activities,” said the IAAC’s CEO.
The Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) is an independent, membership
forum supported by industry and central government. It provides a focus for the development of national and international policies on information assurance and critical infrastructure protection. The mission of the Institute for Communications Arbitration and Forensics is to promote best practice in the security of information, the resolution of ICT related disputes and the solution of ICT related crime.
Both IAAC and ICAF are dedicated to ensuring that the information infrastructure, on which UK organisations and citizens are increasingly reliant, is secure against attack from terrorist attack, criminal violation and internal abuse.