An opinion on the UK’s Cyber Security Export Strategy

As part of his ongoing efforts to ensure an economically viable post-Brexit Britain, Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox has recently released a new Cyber Security Export Strategy for the UK, targeting the period up to 2021. As the UK has experienced some eventful times since the previous strategy was released in early 2014, this was in principle a welcome move. However, the strategy lacks convincing substance on the technological side, and targets the wrong countries. Liam Fox apparently does not want to admit that the UK’s largest cyber security export market of all is seriously at risk for multiple reasons.