Prime Minister David Cameron has had a "full briefing" from security and intelligence chiefs following last week's attacks in France.
He wrote on Twitter: "We discussed ensuring the UK is properly protected from the terrorist threat."
Mr Cameron said the UK was facing the same threat from the "fanatical death cult of Islamist extremist violence".
Meanwhile, a parliamentary human rights watchdog has raised concerns about the government's counter-terrorism bill.
After joining French president Francois Hollande, and more than one million people, for a unity rally in Paris on Sunday, Mr Cameron stressed his determination to give the security services more powers to intercept the communications of terrorist suspects.
Plans for a communications data bill - branded a "snooper's charter" by critics - were blocked by the Liberal Democrats, but Conservatives have signalled they will revive the legislation if they secure an overall majority in May's general election.
Mr Cameron said: "We do need to modernise our rules about interception.
"That is my very clear view and if I am prime minister after the next election I will make sure we legislate accordingly."
He played down suggestions that the terror threat level should be raised from its current "severe" rating - meaning an attack is highly likely - to "critical", which would suggest an attack is imminent.
AnalysisBy Gordon Corera, BBC security correspondent
The meeting with security and intelligence chiefs is being described as an operational briefing, focusing on events in France and ensuring that every step necessary is being taken to prevent anything similar happening here.
As well as looking at protective security measures in the UK, there may also have been an attempt to understand if there are any lessons to be learnt from the French decision to drop surveillance over the two Kouachi brothers six months ago when, reportedly, they were not judged an imminent danger.
The issue of surveillance of communications - which has been politically contentious in the UK - may also have arisen.
In a speech last week, the head of MI5 Andrew Parker warned that the security service was seeing a growing threat from crude as well as more sophisticated mass casualty plots.
He also said his greatest concern was a widening gap between this threat and a diminishing ability to intercept communications, as people turned to new internet-based technology.
Mr Cameron said he would be checking with security and intelligence chiefs that every potential scenario had been looked at.
"We need to make sure we have everything in place to cope with whatever situation might arise," he said.
"We live in a free and open democracy and you cannot be certain of always preventing attacks from taking place."
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said it was unlikely that any new legislation would be announced in the wake of the Paris attacks.
"The balance of parliamentary opinion at the moment is that we have already given the security services a lot of additional powers and resources," he said.
"Appalling and terrible though Paris was, I don't think that has fundamentally changed that political consensus."
Last week's attacks in France - on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police officers and a kosher supermarket - killed 17 people in total.
'Some gaps'The Joint Committee on Human Rights has raised some concerns about the government's counter-terrorism bill, which is due for its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday.
It contains plans to block UK terror suspects returning to Britain and to impose a statutory obligation on universities to prevent people being drawn into terrorism.
The human rights committee - which is made up of MPs and peers - says blocking the return of terror suspects from countries such as Syria would violate the human rights of British nationals even if it were enforced on a temporary basis.
It also said including universities in a list of institutions required to crack down on extremism had "implications for both freedom of expression and academic freedom".
The chairman of the human rights committee, Labour MP Dr Hywel Francis, said: "We are satisfied that in some areas there are gaps in the government's counter-terrorism powers but some of the powers proposed in this bill require extra safeguards - so that they are not used unreasonably, and to permit individuals affected to challenge them where there are grounds to do so."
Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire said the government would "carefully consider" the committee's report.
"We believe the bill strikes the right balance in strengthening security whilst protecting civil liberties," he said.
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