The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has announced that critical cyber weaknesses across the public sector will now be fixed 6 times faster than before.
The improvements are enabled by a specialist government monitoring service, introduced as part of the Blueprint for modern digital government, published in January 2025.
Reportedly this means serious security weaknesses in public sector websites are fixed 6 times faster, cutting the average time from nearly 2 months to just over a week.
DSIT stated that existing vulnerabilities are in the Domain Name System (DNS), with DNS weaknesses allowing attackers to redirect users to fraudulent sites, steal sensitive data, or take services offline entirely.
The vulnerability monitoring service has closed this window down to 8 days. It alerts the right people with clear, practical guidance on how to fix the problem, and tracks progress until each issue is resolved.
The UK minister for digital government, Ian Murray, said: “Cyber-attacks aren’t abstract threats — they delay NHS appointments, disrupt essential services, and put people’s most sensitive data at risk.
“When public services struggle it’s families, patients and frontline workers that feel it.
“The vulnerability monitoring service has transformed how quickly we can spot and fix weaknesses before they’re exploited so we can protect against that.
“We’ve cut cyber-attack fix times by 84% and reduced the backlog of critical issues by three quarters. And as the service expands to cover more types of cyber threats, fix times are falling there too.”
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