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Fortune
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

The U.K.’s top spy says the window to stay ahead of China and Russia is narrowing and cybersecurity needs to become ‘10 times more urgent’

(Credit: Matthew Horwood—CYBERUK via Getty Images)

Russia and China are amping up their espionage on Western nations, and there is a “narrowing window for the U.K. and allies to stay ahead,” according to Britain’s spy chief.

In a rare speech Wednesday at Bletchley Park, an estate in Buckinghamshire, England, that was the center of Allied code-breaking efforts during World War II, Anne Keast-Butler, the director of GCHQ, the U.K.’s intelligence and cybersecurity agency, warned of a renewed threat to the West from newly emboldened adversaries.

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