The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has awarded a three-year contract to Cloudflare to deliver its Protective Domain Name System (PDNS) service.
The connectivity cloud company which will implement the NCSC’s PDNS service from September 2024 in collaboration with the services provider Accenture.
NCSC’s PDNS service – one of its widely deployed Active Cyber Defence capabilities (ACD) – was launched in 2017 to hamper the use of DNS for malware distribution and operation within UK public services.
Since it was stood up seven years ago, PDNS has resolved over 2.5 trillion DNS queries and prevented access to 1.5 million malicious domains. Today, PDNS effectively protects over 1,400 UK organisations in central government, local government, healthcare, emergency services and beyond, preventing average annual losses of at least £59 million.
“As a core capability in the ACD toolkit, our PDNS service does vital work to make the UK public sector measurably safer from cyberattacks and help raise the cyber resilience bar across the nation,” said NCSC director of national resilience and future technology Jonathon Ellison.
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“We’re excited about the next phase in delivering this essential service as we build on its significant successes and continue to protect the services that people depend on.”
PDNS was created by the NCSC and previously implemented by Nominet, which will continue to deliver the service until September 2024.
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