Global Cyber Policy
Chris Inglis, Anne Keast-Butler
RSA Conference 2025 · Day 1 · YBCA Stage
GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler, in conversation with former U.S. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, delivered a keynote fireside chat on the state of global cyber cooperation. She argued that no single actor — government, industry, academia, or citizen — can secure the digital ecosystem alone, and that the UK's model of embedding the National Cyber Security Centre within GCHQ as a convening institution offers lessons for the world. The conversation ranged from ransomware as the dominant operational threat, to AI as both accelerant and equalizer, to the hard economics of why security by design is cheaper than remediation. ---
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The most consequential policy session at RSA 2025. The sitting Director of GCHQ, in her first RSA appearance, delivering substantive doctrine on UK-US collaboration, ransomware, AI defensive gaps, and international regulatory divergence. Inglis is the ideal interlocutor — not a fan, a peer. If you care about how serious governments think about cybersecurity, this is unmissable.