Fact Sheet: US-United Kingdom Cybersecurity Cooperation

During their bilateral meetings in Washington, DC, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to further strengthen and deepen the already extensive cybersecurity cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Both leaders agreed to bolster efforts to enhance the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure in both countries, strengthen threat information sharing and intelligence cooperation on cyber issues, and support new educational exchanges between US and British cybersecurity scholars and researchers. Both governments have agreed to bolster our efforts to increase threat information sharing and conduct joint cybersecurity and network defense exercises to enhance our combined ability to respond to malicious cyber activity. The UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Security Service (MI5) are working with their US partners -- the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- to further strengthen US-UK collaboration on cybersecurity by establishing a joint cyber cell, with an operating presence in each country. The cell, which will allow staff from each agency to be co-located, will focus on specific cyber defense topics and enable cyber threat information and data to be shared at pace and at greater scale.

Additionally, the governments of both the United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to provide funding to support a new Fulbright Cyber Security Award.