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On a perfect autumn day last week, 150 leading stakeholders within the UK cybersecurity ecosystem (and with your author) gathered at a conference facility on the South Bank of the Thames to \u201chelp the UK build a thriving cyber community\u201d.<\/strong> The event<\/a> was organised by Alastair Paterson, the CEO and co-founder of Harmonic Security<\/a>, whose business we profiled in a prior Blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are getting outpaced and outcompeted\u201d<\/strong> was the stark message shared by Alastair with the audience of government officials, start-up founders, investors and Chief Information Security Officers. Throughout the day regular comparisons were made between the tech\/cyber ecosystems that exist in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, emphasising that the UK needs to \u201cown its destiny\u201d<\/strong> by building a comparable network that can foster both innovation and leading new businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First consider why the UK may have historically struggled. \u201cWe\u2019re too British\u201d was one suggestion put forward. \u201cAfraid to fail\u201d was another cited, while a third suggestion \u2013 from an American participant \u2013 was that \u201cwe need to get more unhinged.\u201d<\/strong> Greater risk-taking and more tenacity (this latter word was repeated regularly) need to be encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A more positive perspective might highlight that \u201cwe have all the ingredients [here] in the UK,\u201d <\/strong>as one speaker observed. Consider the country\u2019s strategic location between the US and Asia, its substantial cyber legacy (in both Alan Turing and GCHQ) and more recent tech success stories (particularly DeepMind). UK data engineers anecdotally cost 60% of the price of comparable Silicon Valley hires<\/strong>, we learned. The Government officials present asserted that they were seeking to develop a more \u201ccoherent\u201d approach to enable ecosystem innovation while simultaneously seeking to \u201creduce barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have argued since day-one<\/a> that data have zero value unless secured, stored and analysed<\/strong>. Cyber is therefore only going to become more important, in our view, as our dependence on data grows. The advent of AI not only \u201cspeeds everything up\u201d but will also \u201cexpose vulnerabilities\u201d more visibly than in the past<\/strong>, in the words of one speaker. Now is the time to seize the moment. Practical suggestions include better storytelling and more aggressive go-to-market strategies from start-ups, building repeatable founder processes and hosting more networking events. Your author is excited about all these opportunities ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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