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Organisations involved in critical industry and essential services have been warned by the Government that they face \u00a317m fines if their cybersecurity preparations are not up to standard.<\/p>\n

Energy, transport, water, health and digital infrastructure firms could be fined if they fail to develop robust safeguards protecting themselves from cyberattacks.<\/p>\n

The fines and sanctions come as the government implements the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, which would cover events such as the WannaCry attack which crippled the NHS<\/a><\/strong> last year.<\/p>\n

Making organisations pay up for failing to meet cybersecurity standards would only be a "last resort" according to the Government, which wants to see a voluntary uptake of the new rules before they come into effect on 10 May.<\/p>\n

Margot James, the minister for digital, said: "Today we are setting out new and robust cybersecurity measures to help ensure the UK is the safest place in the world to live and be online.<\/p>\n

"We want our essential services and infrastructure to be primed and ready to tackle cyberattacks and be resilient against major disruption to services."<\/p>\n

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has also published detailed guidance on the security measures which will help organisations comply.<\/p>\n

NCSC's chief executive, Ciaran Martin, said: "Network and information systems give critical support to everyday activities, so it is absolutely vital that they are as secure as possible."<\/p>\n

Image:North Korea was blamed for the WannaCry ransomware attack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jens Monrad, the principal threat analyst at cybersecurity firm FireEye, told Sky News: "With so many nations, including the UK, relying on digitalisation, a foreign nation would likely attempt to cause disruption by targeting critical national infrastructure.<\/p>\n

"This could be systems, which the UK government and citizens rely on, like healthcare systems, water supply and electricity.<\/p>\n

"We have seen examples of these disruption attacks carried out in Ukraine in December 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n

"These attacks caused a power outage for many Ukrainian citizens and created confusion and disruption within the customer service teams of energy providers, who were 'bombarded' with phone calls from upset customers."<\/p>\n

"The UK and US governments recently attributed the 'WannaCry' malware incident to North Korea, which caused a degree of disruption to the NHS," added Mr Monrad.<\/p>\n

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"This serves as an example of how malicious code can disrupt national dependent systems. A more targeted attack against such infrastructure might have had a more severe outcome."<\/p>\n

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has warned recently that Russia could launch a cyberattack<\/a> targeting the UK's critical energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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