I had the pleasure of talking about how we're using co-evolutionary reinforcement learning to simulate defenders and adversaries in computer networks on the Spotlight Stage of Cyber UK this year.

As always, it was a great event, always good to catch up with those looking at national scale cyber defence as well as all the amazing solutions that are emerging.

A lot of discussion focussed on the changing nation state threat landscape and victim profiles. Perhaps the more interesting topics though were those that feel like they're shifting from being fringe to much more mainstream - PUFs, quantum and synthetic computational biology.

My personal highlight was receiving some Glencairns as a consolation prize for coming close to winning a lockpicking challenge. Crowdstrike also did not disappoint with their APT themed t-shirts as usual.

Geoff White did a highly engaging talk on the Lazarus Heist. It was also interesting to hear from the British Library, on their response to the recent cyber attack - something a think a lot of organisations can use as an example.