‘Always On’ – CSOC at DSEI 2025

With the theme for this 12 months’s occasion ‘Preparing the Future Force’, the Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) showcased the UK’s evolving strategy to defence in an more and more unpredictable safety panorama.

Focusing on enhancing agility and resilience throughout all domains, CSOC highlighted the significance of strengthening partnerships with allies and companions to deal with complicated safety challenges. Throughout the exhibition, CSOC consultants engaged in discussions overlaying crucial subjects such because the significance of the cyber and electromagnetic area, the Digital Targeting Web, developments in medical capabilities, and coaching and educating the longer term drive.

General Jim’s keynote tackle emphasised CSOC’s pivotal function in delivering the Strategic Defence Review 2025’s imaginative and prescient to deal with the altering cybersecurity panorama. The pressing must speed up innovation via partnerships to remain forward of adaptive adversaries as threats develop into extra subtle marks a basic shift in the direction of extra built-in and technologically superior capabilities.

CSOC’s presence at DSEI centered on the UK’s response to the escalating cybersecurity threats, resulting in the institution of the brand new Defence Cyber and Electromagnetic Force (DCEMF). This drive will bolster digital defence capabilities and can convey collectively navy experience, cyber defence groups and trade companions to anticipate threats and shield UK navy networks from relentless assaults.

CSOC additionally centered on the Digital Targeting Web, a transformational £1 billion defence programme scheduled for supply by 2030, which is able to allow Defence to sense, perceive, determine, and act sooner than adversaries. Fusing intelligence and focusing on knowledge via AI and machine studying software program, it would speed up decision-making and ship precision results at scale, bringing collectively fragmented methods, knowledge platforms and networks below one net.  

Throughout DSEI, CSOC welcomed leaders from throughout defence, worldwide companions, academia, and the general public, emphasising the importance of those collaborative partnerships that kind the inspiration of UK Defence power. CSOC additionally featured Next Generation Day actions, specializing in nurturing future leaders via youth expertise initiatives, reflecting CSOC’s dedication to growing and attracting the following technology of specialists.

As DSEI 2025 concluded, CSOC’s participation re-affirmed the UK’s dedication to maintaining Britain secure at residence and robust overseas in an more and more contested world safety setting. The occasion not solely showcased present capabilities however supplied a glimpse into the way forward for UK defence, highlighting the crucial function of the cyber and electromagnetic area.