Britain’s cyber agency laid out plans on Tuesday 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. “This has the potential to overwhelm traditional defenses and increase the risk of advantage shifting towards the attacker,” the NCSC said. “Developing viable solutions that scale and execute at the pace we need in the modern era is the remit of the Cyber Shield.”

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