Government to consider common resilience standard for critical infrastructure

The government will consider what owners and operators of critical national infrastructure, like energy and water networks, must do to develop a common standard of resilience against attacks, No. 10 Downing Street has said in its new integrated review of security. The energy security section of 100-page document, which outlined the government’s post-Brexit foreign policy and defence vision, stated that ensuring the supply of “secure, affordable and clean” power is “essential” to the UK’s national interests.

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