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United Kingdom Plans New $57 Million Cyber Security Operations Center

Friday, April 8th, 2016

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The U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend nearly $57 million on a new Cyber Security Operation Centre (CSOC) to strengthen the country’s cyber defense, the Defence Secretary said April 1.The CSOC is planned to be a dedicated facility staffed by experts that utilizes “state-of-the-art defensive cyber capabilities to protect the MoD’s cyberspace from malicious actors,” the ministry said in a statement.The CSOC is part of the MoD’s Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) plans to invest $1.5 billion in…

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