Cyber Growth Action Plan 2025

This report, which is based on input from the supply and demand side of the UK cyber sector, is focused on the growth pillar of the refreshed national cyber strategy. 

Cyber security has been identified as a frontier technology in the Digital and Technologies sector plan of the Industrial Strategy and the UK cyber sector is growing, but so is the cyber threat. With all organisations depending more on digital infrastructures, cyber resilience is critical to enabling all sectors of the economy to grow. This wider economic growth, in turn, should help to fuel innovation and growth in the cyber sector. There is huge need and opportunity for the UK to find ways to reinforce this virtuous cycle of cyber growth and resilience.  

The report highlights that to achieve this, the stakeholders in industry and government need to:  

1. push this virtuous cycle of resilience and growth by stimulating informed demand and supporting businesses at all stages of their growth journeys in meeting that demand; 

2. make strategic choices about where to focus on technologies and sectors; and 

3. simplify and clarify the roles of government (including the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)) in relation to cyber resilience and growth. 

The growth plan described here includes nine recommendations and 24 associated suggestions which outline actions for all parts of the UK cyber ecosystem including government and industry. In summary they call for: 

• Curating the UK’s cyber culture to drive growth and public participation in cyber skills and innovation. 

• Putting leadership in the right places with industry-led national and place-based cyber growth roles. 

• Building on the UK’s places of cyber strength to collaborate on sensitive topics, chosen technology areas and make time to create and anticipate cyber futures. 

There are important roles in this growth plan for industry, government, academia, investors, and civil society. The good news is that throughout the consultation the authors found that all parts of the community were already capable, willing, and engaged on the challenges and opportunities for the UK. The plan emphasises the need for shared principles to act as one team and to both recognise and act upon the connections between cyber growth, resilience and value for money.  

Read the full Action Plan below.