National and homeland security

The UK government wants to be a world leader in protecting the public from online harms. Our regulatory experts played a key role in enabling the UK government to make key decisions around the establishment of a new Online Harms Regulator.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is building seven Astute-class, nuclear-powered submarines to maintain the UK’s naval defences. Our support in negotiating the final deal enabled the MOD to secure savings of £110 million on the £1.4 billion contract.

Our expert guidance helped the UK MOD negotiate £250m maritime support savings.

The NCA leads the fight against serious and organised crime like financial crime, drug smuggling, human trafficking and child exploitation in the UK. It operates round the clock. So it’s essential it can carry on functioning in an emergency, whether it’s a cyber-attack or IT crash, a fire or a pandemic like COVID-19.

PA Consulting worked with the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the UK’s National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG) to create a framework of industrial control systems (ICS) guidance documents and a companion security assessment tool.

We enabled the UK MOD to work more effectively with industry partners – saving £350 million in just two years.

PA Consulting’s Caroline Field and Ben Warner, national resilience experts, discuss the UK National Resilience framework.

Anders Herrström, information and cybersecurity expert, elaborates on the need for Sweden’s private companies to step up and improve their resilience to cyberattacks to minimise the costs both for them and society as a whole.

Our team worked with programme HYDRA to maintain its high levels of performance and psychological safety.

PA Consulting welcomes five new Partners to its Defence and Security practice, which reflects PA’s continued growth in this area.