Britain plans to build autonomous AI 'Cyber Shield' to defend nation

Source: The Record

Britain’s cyber agency laid out plans on Jul. 7 for what it called “a national scale, sovereign defense capability” that would use agentic AI systems to discover and fix cybersecurity weaknesses across government networks and critical national infrastructure. The capability, called Cyber Shield, is designed to counter a threat the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said could see attackers “move at machine speed and greater scale, reducing opportunities for detection and response.” Adversaries aided by AI, the agency said in a blog post, can already compress reconnaissance and vulnerability discovery from weeks into minutes. Full Story