Russia poses Britain’s most acute immediate threat in cyberspace, while China’s ambition to be dominant in a host of new technologies will transform the world, the director of Britain’s cybersecurity center said. .

“In cyberspace, as in other areas of security, Russia represents the most acute and immediate threat to the UK,” Lindy Cameron, director general of the National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC), the security department, said on Friday. British technology.

“We need to be clear about China’s ambition for technological advances,” Cameron said. “China will change the world we live in in a much more fundamental way than Russia.”