Malicious email volume

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Dear Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists,

Please find below my FOI request regarding malicious emails sent to the department.

The date range for the requests is from 2018 to present day. The data shall include a breakdown by year and by individual departments (e.g. separate departments, agencies, or public bodies within the main government agency), if applicable.

1. How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?
2. What percentage of malicious emails were opened by staff?
3. What percentage of malicious links in the emails were clicked on by staff?
4. How many ransomware attacks were blocked by the department?
5. How many ransomware attacks were successful?

Yours faithfully,
Rebecca Moody

Office Mailbox, Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists

Dear Rebecca Moody,

FOI 2021/12

Thank you for your request for information, received by the Office on 11
November 2021.

This request is being treated under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (the 'FOI Act'). Your request was as follows:

The date range for the requests is from 2018 to present day. The data
shall include a breakdown by year and by individual departments (e.g.
separate departments, agencies, or public bodies within the main
government agency), if applicable.

1. How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?
2. What percentage of malicious emails were opened by staff?
3. What percentage of malicious links in the emails were clicked on by
staff?
4. How many ransomware attacks were blocked by the department?
5. How many ransomware attacks were successful?

The Cabinet Office provides a number of corporate functions to The Office
of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists including information
communication and technology service delivery. As a result we do not hold
the data that is being requested as this is held by the Cabinet Office.

For details on this arrangement you can read our statement of accounts on
our website.

If you have any questions about the content of this reply, please contact
me directly, using the contact details below. If you are not content with
this response, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner.

The details of how to do so are set out on the website of the Information
Commissioner's Office:

[1]https://ico/org.uk/make-a-complaint.

Regards

Sarah

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