The cyber risk facing UK “widely underestimated”, warns head of GCHQ’s NCSC Richard Horne in first major speech
The new head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has used his first speech to warn that the cyber risk to the UK is “widely underestimated.”
In his speech at the NCSC London headquarters for the launch of its Annual Review, NCSC’s Richard Horne, emphasised the need for sustained vigilance in an increasingly aggressive online world.
It comes after the NCSC and nine international allies in September gave details of cyber-attack campaigns by a unit of Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU) that targeted organisations to collect information for espionage purposes.
Cyber threats
Richard Horne has been CEO of the NCSC since October 2024 and he used his first major speech to issue a rallying call for collective action against an increasingly complex array of threats.
“What has struck me more forcefully than anything else since taking the helm at the NCSC is the clearly widening gap between the exposure and threat we face, and the defences that are in…
