27 June 2019

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham

The head of GCHQ has made the case for a “genuinely national effort” to help improve the UK’s cyber security.

Director Jeremy Fleming stressed the need for continued and increasing collaboration between government, academia and industry partners in the UK and abroad when he made a keynote speech in Scotland last month.

He argued that the technological revolution brings with it “increasing complexity, uncertainty and risk”, telling an audience in Glasgow it brings “new and unprecedented challenges for policymakers as we seek to protect our citizens, judicial systems, businesses – and even societal norms”.

The director of the agency, often referred to as Britain’s listening post, was one of the main speakers at the Cyber UK 2019 conference at the Scottish Event Campus.