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Welcome to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra.

On the 11th of October, an event titled Then, Today and Tomorrow, focused on women in cybersecurity, or the lack of them.

The lunch and talks celebrated the history of women in cyber security, looking back at Bletchley Park during World War II

where women outnumbered men by far, but today the industry looks very different.

I went along and met Natalie Black, who works for the Cabinet Office, and has a very long job title.

So your job title is rather baffling. Please start with that and tell so that we get clear on who you are.

So I'm Deputy Director for Cyber Defence and Public Networks in the Office of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at the Cabinet Office.

Who knew there was even such a thing? So can you tell you tell me about the function of that and what that involves?

So Cabinet Office is responsible for delivery of the National Cyber Security Strategy

and the National Cybersecurity Programme, which is basically the money to deliver that.

The Office of Cybersecurity, which is the team that I work in,

takes a responsibility for delivering

that on a day-to-day basis. So particularly myself, I'm responsible for overseeing policy

in relation to public networks, making sure they're safe and secure, and also cyber defence.

So the broader look on the public sector with a particular interest in

incident management. So if there's a cyber incident, my team are heavily involved in

helping to manage that. How would you explain what a cyber incident would be in those terms?

What sort of thing do you mean? So it could be anything really from your computer going down

because it's been attacked by malware when you're

sat at home at your desk all the way through to a national cyber incident so for example if we

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