'Lack of cohesion' in UK cyber security, warns former GCHQ/CESG head

Stuart Sumner
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'Strategy by committee' is not the answer says former GCHQ and CESG chief, as UK cyber security lags behind US, Germany and France

The UK lags behind the US, France and Germany in its ability to respond to cyber attack, according to a former head of the government's spy agency, GCHQ (pictured). Nick Hopkinson, now head of c...

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