Royal Marines in Estonia for Exercise Spring Storm 2023. Credit: MOD

UK defence facing a “step-change” in how adversaries use digital and data: “Attitudes, culture” must change

"Our ability to collect data risks overmatching the ability of our analysts to analyse and exploit it at the speed we need"

The UK’s threat landscape is being disrupted by a “a step-change in how state and non-state actors collect and analyse data” an intelligence chief has warned, saying that HMG's data collection reach exceeds its analytics grasp and a new data analytics ecosystem is needed.