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U.K. National Security Committee Launches Cybersecurity Inquiry

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

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U.K. National Security Committee Launches Cybersecurity Inquiry

Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP. Photo: UK Parliament.

The United Kingdom Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy is launching an inquiry into cybersecurity, the committee said Monday.Committee chair Margaret Beckett MP noted that while the internet has changed everybody's daily lives and opened up new opportunities “it has also created new vulnerabilities. The nation security implications of the leap to cyber are a matter of increasing concern.”Referring to the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign hacks by Russia (Defense Daily, Jan. 6), she added, “Attention has recently focused…

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