A report in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph says that the prospect of a a “serious cyber attack” is a matter of “when, not if.” A report in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph says that the prospect of a a “serious cyber attack” is a matter of “when, not if.”

Writing in the newspaper, Ciaran Martin, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), GCHQ’s cyber defence unit, said:

“Absolute protection is neither possible nor desirable; it’s about having more resilience in the systems we care about the most, those where loss of service would have the most impact on our way of life.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, the NCSC has been separately briefing organisations involved in the UK’s critical national infrastructure, including the utilities, on “attack vectors” the specific methods being used by Russia in cyber attacks.

Click here to read the Sunday Telegraph article in full.