Sir John Scarlett - McAfee Cyber Security Exhibit Launch

Bletchley Park

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🗓️ 30 June 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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June 2014

McAfee, part of Intel Security, today announced the official opening of its international Cyber Security Exhibition and Computer Learning Zone at Bletchley Park, as part of its five-year collaborative partnership with the home of the World War Two Codebreakers.

Sir John Scarlett gave a speech on the impact and importance of Bletchley Park, online safety and the role of women in Cyber Security.

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0:00.0	This is the site and this is the place where truly great events, great achievements happened.
0:15.5	In this place, in this building, on this site, in these huts, in these blocks,
0:22.0	the contribution to victory in World War II,
0:25.4	and of course the ushering in of the technological revolution and the IT age.
0:31.1	By any standards, this is a big deal to talk about such subjects.
0:35.3	These are not routine issues.
0:39.3	Two weeks ago, on the 18th of June,
0:46.9	we ushered in a new age for Pletchley Park and the Pletchley Park Trust with the relaunch of our regenerated site, which you can see around you. It's quite hard for you, unless you've been here
0:51.3	before, to realise what it was like when it wasn't regenerated. And of course, symbolised on this occasion by H.R.H. The Duchess of Cambridge,
0:59.3	whose grandmother and great-aunt, twin sisters, worked here in 1944 and 1945. So that's a pretty
1:06.7	special thing. And then, of course, now we have the McAfee exhibition. First of all, I just want to
1:14.4	remind you of the history, because that is fundamentally what it is about. Now, on the 12th of July,
1:22.2	1945, General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, wrote a letter to my predecessor as the Chief of Secret Intelligence Service,
1:33.4	Major General Mingis, the third chief of the service. I was the 14th, so there was a bit of a gap between us and 60 years,
1:40.7	but still all the same, I feel the connection, in which he asked for his special thanks
1:45.8	to be passed to the staff of Bletchley Park, and he explained in the letter how the
1:50.4	intelligence from Bletchley Park has been of priceless value to me. It has saved thousands
1:56.6	of British and American lives, and it contributed to the speed with which the enemy was routed
2:02.5	and eventually forced to surrender. That's a direct quote from the letter. I had that hanging in my
2:10.0	office. I was very proud to have it hanging in my office, but I didn't entirely understand what it
2:14.2	quite meant. With in hindsight, you can see, I think, perhaps, that the reference
2:19.2	to saving thousands of lives was almost certainly an understatement. If we accept, as quite
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