International Plenary - Global Perspectives On How to Stop Threat Outpacing Resilience
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CYBERUK 2026 · Day 2 · Main Plenary
In an era marked by profound geopolitical uncertainty and an ever-accelerating digital transformation, the challenge of maintaining pace with evolving cyber threats has become paramount. This plenary session at CYBERUK, uniquely composed entirely of NCSC's international partners, convened cybersecurity leaders from Singapore, Canada, Latvia, Japan, and France to share their global perspectives on how nations can collectively enhance resilience against a continuously intensifying threat landscape. Chaired by David Cole, Chief Executive of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, the discussion underscored a critical pivot: from a sole focus on preventing every cyber attack to building robust, adaptable **cyber resilience** capable of sustaining operations amidst inevitable breaches.
AI review
A competent international policy panel that largely delivers what it promises: senior national cyber agency heads comparing notes on strategy, legislative posture, and collective defense philosophy. The lane here is clearly strategic/executive, and graded on those terms it performs adequately. There are a few genuine signals worth catching — Japan's ACD legislation with explicit offensive-neutralization authority is the sharpest disclosure, Latvia's DNS firewall numbers give rare operational texture, and Canada's CIRA/Firefox partnership is a concrete model other nations could replicate. But…