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The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: what it will require, and what applies today
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is at Lords committee stage — not law. Even at Royal Assent most duties do not commence: data centres, managed service providers and critical suppliers arrive via secondary legislation. How the UK compares with Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Norway.
In practice
Contain the incident first, prove what happened second — inside the reporting window.
Reporting clocks run in hours, and management liability turns on whether controls were implemented and supervised, not merely approved. Barzel isolates credentials, cuts an agent off in one action and keeps signed receipts of what ran — the material a notification and a board report are written from.
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Lords committee stage
BarzelVault
The AI action firewall: decide what an agent may do before it does it.
- Approval thresholds and policy checks enforced before execution; human approvals that expire and escalate.
- Cryptographically signed audit receipts: trigger, inputs, policy version, approver, outcome.
- Credential isolation, spend and action limits, and an emergency kill switch.
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Barzel Central Gateway
The AI governance control plane: one inventory and one policy layer across every MCP server and agent.
- Registers and synchronises every tool; enforces identity, policy, region, cost and health per tool.
- Identity mapping through OIDC, Entra ID, Okta, SAML and SPIFFE, with credential brokerage.
- Trace and SIEM export (W3C trace context, OTLP) for the security team and the regulator.
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