Britain’s domestic security agency briefed senior executives on declassified intelligence on Monday, as part of a new government initiative to deepen co-operation with business on countering threats to national security.
Officials described it as a “first of its kind” briefing involving the Security Service, also known as MI5, and almost a dozen companies and trade bodies in the “most strategically important” sectors of the UK economy, including artificial intelligence, communications and defence.
Attendees at the first meeting of the economic security public-private forum at the Cabinet Office were given a presentation by one of the most senior officials at the National Protective Security Authority, a branch of MI5 established earlier this year.