UK’s intelligence  service agency GCHQ, which includes MI6 (of James Bond fame) hired a new head in May, who recently told the BBC, “Keeping the UK safe from cyber-attacks is now as important as fighting terrorism.”
There were approximately 600 “significant” cyber-attacks needing a national response in the last year, he said. The British National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) came into existence only about one year ago.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the ex-deputy director of MI5, the domestic sister agency of MI6, Fleming said the UK’s adversaries are fast at finding “new ways of doing us harm. We see that in the way terrorists are constantly changing their weapons, or states are using their full range of tools to steal secrets, gain influence and attack our economy,” he told the Telegraph.

Britain is quite late coming to the conclusion that cyber security is worthy of it’s own Government organization, compared with the United States.