A red rating is the lowest possible security score, signifying that the system is “at a critical level of risk, where the likelihood of encountering issues or failures is significant, and the potential impact of these issues could be severe.” Systems generally fall into the red-rating category because of the presence of out-dated or legacy components.
For comparison, the next most vulnerable technology belongs to The Department for Work and Pensions which had six red-rated systems. Thirty-four systems across government departments are red-rated.
The figures were released to Parliament following a question by Matt Rodda, Labour MP for Reading East and shadow minister for AI and intellectual property, who asked about the number of red-rated systems across Whitehall departments.
As reported by the Daily Telegraph, in response to the data, Rodda said: “The scale of this problem is utterly unacceptable. The Ministry of Defence, the department chiefly responsible for the security of Britain, should simply not have this many critical failures in its systems. We can’t even get the…
