UK NCSC Adds AI Cybersecurity Chapter to Research Problem Book

UK National Cyber Security Centre adds a chapter on AI in cybersecurity to its research problem book, as detailed in an agency blog post. The chapter identifies seven research areas across three themes.

The themes cover using AI to strengthen cyber defense, securing and assessing AI systems, and applying methods based on data to improve cyber resilience at scale. The agency says generative and agentic AI can plan, reason, use tools and act with increasing autonomy.

The chapter also focuses on collaboration between people and AI. Its research questions examine where autonomous systems can provide value, where human judgment remains necessary and how organizations can maintain oversight during operations conducted at machine speed.