GCHQ Turns To AI For National Cyber Defence

GCHQ says it has developed a blueprint for a national cyber defence capability that could use AI agents to help protect the UK's most important infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.

A New Approach To Cyber Defence

The proposed system, which could be operational within five years, would use what GCHQ describes as "cutting-edge agentic AI" to identify and respond to cyber threats at machine speed.