National Cyber Security Programme The Pathfinder Training Journey Helen Braithwaite, Local Digital Collaboration Unit, MHCLG

## Cyber Pathfinder Training Scheme Pathfinder Programme: What Have We Been Doing? Events

Exercise FINACK - January to March 2019
Pathfinder Training Days Modules 1 to 6 - February 2019 to March 2020 4 additional LRF Workshops - September to October 2019 Local Leadership in Cyber for strategic leaders in the public sector - June 2019
62 events in total and 3,600 attendees

## The Pathfinder Programme - Some Facts And Figures

2,834 delegates have attended Exercise FINACK to Pathfinder 5 546 delegates have booked to attend Pathfinder 6 events (January to March 2020)
Over 50% of delegates represented Local Authorities Other organisations attending include: Local Resilience Forum Secretariats, Police, Fire 
& Rescue Services, Health, Environment Agency, other Government Departments, voluntary sector and third party suppliers providing services to local government 100 Resilient Cities article on Cyber Pathfinder Programme - http://crisis-response.com/comment/blogpost.php?post=491

## What Have We Been Doing? Products/Guidance

Cyber Standard & Self Assessment Tool Framework Plan Cyber Technical Advice Cell Cyber Lexicon Case Studies CyberHub on Resilience Direct Guidance and support is available on the Cyber Hub of Resilience Direct 

## Bringing Cyber To Life……

Learning from each other - sharing best practice;
Debriefing and evaluating feedback to change and improve content;
From your experiences we have built more detailed case studies: Wiltshire, Copeland, Kent, Staffordshire +++ Signposting and linking to other resources: NCSC Board Toolkit, Exercise in a Box & Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP) Regional Organised Cyber Crime Units (ROCCUs) CPNI - Personnel and People Security Warning Advice & Reporting Points (WARPs)

## Exercise Finack: Wiltshire Council - January 2020

Over 200 people attended inc: Chief Executive Officers, all 15 Directors, 45 Heads of Service, Managers, Operational Staff, Wiltshire Council Councillors and local partners.

ICT Manager from Copeland Borough Council, David Cowan and NCSC presented.

## The Learning Tells Us That:

Cyber is a team sport Strategic leaders need to be involved - but it's difficult Impacts of a cyber incident are wide and varied - and challenging
'Business as usual' local and national crisis response arrangements will work in a cyber incident Cyber plans and emerging guidance/concepts need more testing and exercising Case studies and sharing of experiences bring everything to life and make it real

## 20/21 The Future: Next Steps

More training and exercising; Embed and test plans, guidance and concepts at the local/regional/national level;
Use the RD platform to build a cyber community of interest; Explore other platforms and ways to share learning and develop Pathfinder materials; Research whether a National Cyber Network could support sharing learning and good practise; Through the Pathfinder network support, exercise and inform future cyber policy development.

## Any Questions?

Helen Braithwaite, Local Digital Collaboration Unit, MHCLG
helen.braithwaite@communities.gov.uk philip.james@communities.gov.uk