The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced the creation of the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund to help identify and fund initiatives designed to support the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Programme – a scheme designed to expand on the government’s cyber security training schemes. The new funding will be launched in late 2018 to help promote greater cyber skills training in the UK. The funding is also designed to help close the skills shortage gap within the UK cyber security industry by helping to stream more qualified cyber security practitioners into the industry – thus helping SMEs, third sector and public-sector organisations provide greater cyber security protection.