NCSC Urges Immediate Action to Boost Resilience as Uncertainty Persist
NCSC Urges Immediate Action to Boost Resilience as Uncertainty Persist
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Publish Date: 2026-06-02 11:30:00
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Security teams must improve collaboration and enhance cyber resilience if they are to survive in an increasingly volatile world, one of the UK’s leading cybersecurity agencies has warned.
Speaking at Infosecurity Europe on June 2, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) director of operations, Paul Chichester, shared his vision of the threat landscape, and what organizations must do to manage risk at a time of tremendous change.
Despite having observed the “arc of cybersecurity” for over three decades, Chichester admitted “now is perhaps the first time I’m not sure ‘where next?’.” That’s down to a confluence of technological change, geopolitical uncertainty, and threat landscape evolution.
“It feels like there are a lot of dice and a lot of variables and we’re not predicting anything very well these days,” he admitted. “Professionally, things are harder than they’ve ever been.”
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Chichester’s words came as new data released by ManageEngine revealed that 77% of British organizations suffered a cyber incident over the past year, 11% above the European average.
The Lay of the Threat Landscape
Chichester described several other areas of concern which infosecurity professionals will be familiar with, but need to address.
They included hyper connectivity – which he claimed was growing at such a rate that it’s increasingly difficult for defenders to track and manage across the entire IT estate.
Another is the pace of tech transformation, which Chichester said will drive huge “societal and civilizational changes” and create yet more “vast amounts of uncertainty.”
“It’s quite a lonely place to be as a technology and security professional because we’re trying to slow things down,” he added. “As technologists, that’s not what we want.”
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