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Securing converged technologies: insights from subject matter experts

Research setting out the cyber security risks and opportunities of technology convergence.

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This report examines the role of technology convergence, its impact upon cyber security and potential policy responses.

Based on research with 20 subject matter experts primarily from the cyber security sector, this report presents a series of findings on the challenges of identifying technology convergences for cyber security, how technology convergence operates across broader technology ecologies, and how engagement with a range of actors in order to build expert communities is essential to addressing and mitigating the impact of technology convergence for cyber security.

This research is part of the government’s wider work to ensure good cyber security in new and emerging technologies, and to improve cyber resilience across the UK economy.

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Published 8 August 2025

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