Case Study: City of London Police achieves a national cyber‑crime response with Kaspersky Lab

Developing A National Response To Cyber Crime

City of London Police, home of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and Action Fraud, faced a sharp rise in cyber-enabled crime — with fraud reports reaching 230,845 in 2013/14 and about 70% now involving an IT or cyber element, costing the UK an estimated £27 billion a year. To strengthen national capability the force partnered with Kaspersky Lab, drawing on Kaspersky Security Intelligence Services and the Kaspersky Lab Cyber Security Education programme to address increasingly sophisticated malware and online fraud threats.

Kaspersky Lab designed and delivered the UK’s first comprehensive cyber security training programme — intensive, week-long, hands-on courses teaching network traffic inspection, hard-drive image analysis and malware decompilation — and successfully upskilled NFIB officers. The Kaspersky Lab training established a consistent, nationally rollable curriculum for police and large businesses, improved investigators’ technical capabilities and awareness, and helped position the City of London Police to lead a coordinated national response to cyber crime.

City of London Police

Adrian Leppard

Commissioner