New Zealand's national cyber security agency, operating within the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and participating in the Five Eyes cyber security partnership alongside CISA and the NSA (United States), the NCSC (United Kingdom), the ACSC (Australia), and the CCCS (Canada).
AI work
Catriona Robinson, Deputy Director General Cyber Security and head of the NCSC, signed for New Zealand the June 2026 Five Eyes Call to Action on AI Preparedness, which addresses risk "driven by Frontier AI's ability to identify and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale" and states that AI "is not a future consideration – it is already here."
The NCSC's accompanying account of its own programme is unusual for a national agency in disclosing direct model access: "The NCSC is accessing frontier AI models and is working with providers to understand and inform our response to cyber security risks and provide advice and guidance to New Zealand organisations." The wider programme covers collaboration with vendors testing those models, published guidance to business and government, and work with agencies implementing the government's digital roadmap "to ensure cyber security and resilience is a foundational component of digital investment and procurement from concept to implementation." Two guidance documents are named: "Frontier AI: Managing the increasing risks from vulnerabilities" and "Cyber readiness in the Frontier AI era."
The agency is also a publishing partner on the May 2026 Five Eyes joint guidance on agentic AI (Five Eyes Joint Guidance on Secure Deployment of AI Agents (May 2026)).
Relationships
- related: Leaders of Five Eyes Cyber Security Agencies: Call to Action on AI Preparedness (June 2026) — signatory and publishing agency
- related: Five Eyes Joint Guidance on Secure Deployment of AI Agents (May 2026), AI and Cybersecurity, Autonomous cyber-agents