Cabinet Office appoints National Cyber Advisory Board Co-Chair
Sharon Barber joins Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster as co-chair of the National Cyber Advisory Board (NCAB).
The Cabinet Office has today confirmed that Sharon Barber has been appointed as co-Chair of the National Cyber Advisory Board (NCAB). Sharon brings a wealth of experience from her role as Chief Information Officer at Lloyds Banking Group.
The National Cyber Advisory Board (NCAB) is a forum for a more inclusive and engaged national dialogue on cyber.
As part of the whole of society approach of the National Cyber Strategy 2022, the Board will bring together leaders from academia, industry and the third sector from across the UK. It will allow government to hear alternative viewpoints and harness networks from across the cyber ecosystem, mobilising them to support the delivery across all five pillars of the strategy.
The NCAB will take the widest view of the National Cyber Strategy. It will work closely with the Cyber Growth Partnership (which works to drive business growth in the UK cyber sector), the UK Cyber Security Council (which develops and promotes the profession), the Government Cyber Security Advisory Board and other relevant boards and organisations working to deliver our cyber commitments in government and the public sector.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and lead Cyber Minister, Steve Barclay, said:
I’m delighted to appoint Sharon Barber as co-chair and look forward to her bringing her expertise and experience from industry to the National Cyber Advisory Board, which is a crucial part of the successful delivery of our National Cyber Strategy.
We are investing £2.6billion in cyber over the next three years and that funding will underpin our approach to dealing collaboratively with industry, universities, schools and individual citizens to work with us to tackle the cyber challenges ahead.
Newly-appointed NCAB co-Chair Sharon Barber said:
The Government has set out an ambitious strategy – it’s now up to us to join together, harnessing the rich diversity of the UKs abilities across academia, government and industry to move into execution. We will be more successful as a collective.