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At the annual Cyber Week hosted by Tel Aviv University, the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Lindy Cameron, as described Israel as “a central part of the global cyber eco-system”. She underlined: “We are absolutely committed to working together to protect our citizens and build confidence in a digital future”.
In her first international speech, Cameron said that the “UK-Israel cyber security relationship is built on the long-standing ties of an enduring national security alliance. Operational collaboration between our agencies is strong and well developed. It focuses on exchanges of threat reporting and analysis of trends, something I am pleased to say continued successfully throughout the challenge of Covid”.
She also discussed the recent translation into Hebrew of the Software Security Knowledge Area of the UK’s Cyber Security Body of Knowledge as a clear example of how the bilateral partnership could strengthen each country’s cyber knowledge and understanding.
At the same event, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and former CEO of an Israeli cybersecurity company, used his speech to announce a new project called the “Global Cybernet Shield”, which he said would use the “principles of connectivity” that Israel already deploys for cyber defence internally, but now on an international level for a “real-time network defence”.
