Recommendation 19

We asked the Cabinet Office what structures it had in place to share information about cyber security with permanent secretaries and throughout departments.40 The Cabinet Office told us that it had launched the Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3) in September 2023, and that this had helped government share information more effectively. The GC3 brings together people from the National Cyber Security Centre, 33 Q 26 34 Q 29 35 Q 31 36 Q 28 37 Q 57 38 Qq 33–34 39 Q 36 40 Q 35 12 the Cabinet Office, and the Government Digital Service.41 The Cabinet Office added that GC3 was in its early stages, but was starting to build communities of cyber practitioners across government.42 41 Q 34; C&AG’s Report, para 2.16 42 Q 35 13 2 Improving Government’s cyber resilience Resilience of the IT estate