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MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), [2] officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).
NISCC's role was to provide advice to companies operating critical national infrastructure, [34] and NSAC was a unit within MI5 that provided security advice to other parts of the UK government. The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) was formed as a child agency of MI5 in 2007, merging the NISCC and NSAC. [35]
He warned the UK faces the most "complex and interconnected" threat it has ever seen. He added there had been 20 Iran-backed plots since 2022. [11] In a December 2024 podcast interview with Simon Case, McCallum stated that MI5 has had to "pare back" its counter-terrorism focus due to the growing threat from Russia and other hostile states ...
The National Protective Security Authority is the protective security arm of MI5, the counter-intelligence and security agency in the United Kingdom. It is a distinct entity, but benefits from access to MI5’s expertise and understanding of security threats. [1]
MI5: Counter-espionage and military policy in dealing with the civil population (the former Home Section of the Secret Service Bureau) Liaison with the Security Service (counterintelligence) Active: MI6: Legal and economic section dealing with the MI finance as well as economic intelligence and personnel records. Monitoring arms trafficking.
The organisation supports the work of the Joint Intelligence Committee (tasked with directing the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Security Service (MI5) and GCHQ) and National Security Council by providing intelligence assessments to Ministers and senior officials.
MI5 had “legitimate reasons” to warn MPs about a lawyer accused of working for the Chinese government, judges have ruled. ... the Prime Minister has said the UK is “alert” to risks posed ...
Security Intelligence Far East (SIFE) was a British intelligence organization created in 1946 as the Far Eastern regional headquarters of the Security Service, MI5.It was based in British-controlled Singapore and established by Colonel Cyril Egerton Dixon, a career MI5 officer with a great deal of war time counter intelligence experience in Britain and India.