UK and US unite to fight cyber warfare
The UK and United States are to sign a new agreement to work closer together on cyber warfare, the Defence Secretary has announced.
Gavin Williamson is on the new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is currently anchored two miles from Manhattan in New York, and was speaking ahead of a conference with US and UK military experts on the changing face of warfare.
He said: “Aggressor nations still respect our hard-won military expertise on sea, land and air.
“But they can now use technology to do us harm in ways once thought impossible.
“Already the UK is acting – combining our technical excellence, our professionalism, our war fighter ethos, to design and increasingly use our offensive cyber capabilities.
“I am convinced cyber, information warfare and intelligence must be fully integrated into our military, that they are fundamental to a modernised defence and our war fighting successes, and that without them we put our nation’s security at risk.”
Next year HMS Queen Elizabeth will have her systems tested against the cyber danger as part of a Royal Navy-led exercise which will simulate attempts to bring down networks and jam satellite communications.