Look to maths to defend UK from cyber threats - in the media
- cforbes139
- Jan 15
- 1 min read
The Financial Times have published an article from University of Glasgow Professor Muffy Calder, who spells out the economic damage threatened by cyber attacks in the UK, pointing to maths as the nation's best line of defence.
As she writes, mathematicians at Bletchley Park during the war were instrumental to the Allied victory, with their ideas going on to form the basis for the computing revolution.
Professor Calder points out that the same could be achieved with joined-up thinking across Government, businesses and universities to tap into the UK's leading maths research and secure the country against these increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.
Read the article in full here.
