How DSIT Protects Thousands of UK Orgs from Cyber Vulnerabilities
How DSIT Protects Thousands of UK Orgs from Cyber Vulnerabilities
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Publish Date: 2026-06-08 04:15:00
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The UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is responsible for securing over half a million domains across thousands of government organizations.
This ranges from the smallest Parish Councils to the behemoth that is the National Health Service (NHS) and its various sub-organizations.
That makes advising these organizations on what the latest cybersecurity vulnerabilities are and how to fix them a challenge, especially in an era when frontier AI Models are uncovering more vulnerabilities than ever before.
However, that does not mean each individual organization must fully understand the technical details of what vulnerabilities could be exploited. Rather, it is more important that they are provided with the correct information on what to fix and how to fix it, explained Nick Woodcraft service owner for vulnerability monitoring at DSIT.
“When you come with a problem, rather than talking about the technology, talk about the outcomes,” he said said,
Woodcraft was speaking at Infosecurity Europe 2026, in a session on the Resilience and Cyber Risk stage, titled ‘From Months to Days: How DSIT Is Rethinking Remediation at Scale’.
Making Vulnerability Management Simple to Understand
For example, he detailed how DSIT has simplified discussion around DNS vulnerabilities. A local council does not need to know what exactly a DNS vulnerability is, but they are told that if the issue is not fixed, they may lose access to their website.
“Most of the people we talk to are extremely competent at what they are do, but they are not cybersecurity or vulnerability experts,” said Woodcraft.
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“But when you explain this is what it is, this is what it means – that you could lose access to your website – they understand and appropriately prioritize it. That’s been important, finding ways to help people understand,” he explained.
However, with over…
