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Britain plans to build autonomous AI 'Cyber Shield' to defend nation

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Feed Name: The Record from Recorded Future News

Date Published: 2026-07-07

Date Updated: 2026-07-23

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The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) announced Cyber Shield, a proposed national-scale program to deploy agentic AI red/blue teams that discover and remediate vulnerabilities across government and critical infrastructure. The plan calls for six core functions from automated scanning to autonomous patching, acknowledges research challenges, and seeks collaboration with academia, industry, and frontier AI providers for testing and scaling.

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