National and homeland security

PA Consulting’s Caroline Field and Ben Warner, national resilience experts, discuss the UK National Resilience framework.

The UK government wants to be a world leader in protecting the public from online harms. Our regulatory experts played a key role in enabling the UK government to make key decisions around the establishment of a new Online Harms Regulator.

The NCA leads the fight against serious and organised crime like financial crime, drug smuggling, human trafficking and child exploitation in the UK. It operates round the clock. So it’s essential it can carry on functioning in an emergency, whether it’s a cyber-attack or IT crash, a fire or a pandemic like COVID-19.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is building seven Astute-class, nuclear-powered submarines to maintain the UK’s naval defences. Our support in negotiating the final deal enabled the MOD to secure savings of £110 million on the £1.4 billion contract.

PA Consulting worked with the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the UK’s National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG) to create a framework of industrial control systems (ICS) guidance documents and a companion security assessment tool.

Our expert guidance helped the UK MOD negotiate £250m maritime support savings.

We enabled the UK MOD to work more effectively with industry partners – saving £350 million in just two years.