Director GCHQ gives Mansion House Defence & Security Lecture 2019
The lecture was hosted by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London Peter Estlin and organised by the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association of Greater London. The audience comprised a mix of people from business, finance, tech and defence.
The speech was entitled ‘Cyber – and it’s challenges for GCHQ’s second century’. In it, Jeremy Fleming, touched on the role of GCHQ and the NCSC in protecting the Digital Homeland of the UK and in particular the work we have done to keep businesses safe online.
He commended the great work done by industry already to improve their cyber security and that of their customers and the work they have done in partnership with us to help protect the entire sector.
“Many of you have taken our guidance and repackaged and tailored it for partners and consumers. In particular, I commend the work of the big banks in passing on our small business advice to their customer base, either in the form of direct engagement, through webinars or in their own public-facing campaigns.”
He encouraged business to work with government and academia to help create a more cyber literate population and to invest in the cyber and digital skills for of the next generation.
