UK cyber agency unveils AI-powered Cyber Shield to counter attacks at machine speed

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants to deploy autonomous AI agents capable of finding and neutralizing cyberattacks on national networks in real time, marking Britain’s push toward a sovereign, machine-speed cyber defense system. The blueprint, called Cyber Shield, was developed jointly with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). “The objective of Cyber Shield is to build a national-scale, collaborative approach to agentic cyber defence, using frontier AI