The increase of employees working from home and the way we live our lives in the digital world, presents perfect opportunities for sophisticated cyber-attacks from phishers, hackers, scammers and criminals demanding ransoms.
Almost two thirds (66%) of UK business leaders expect cyber security threats to increase in the next 12 months, according to research by PWC.
The report states:
- In a wide-ranging survey of UK executives, 61% expect to see an increase in reportable ransomware incidents in 2022
- 86% said that complexity in their organisation was creating concerning levels of risk, with third-party cyber risks a glaring blind spot
- 64% expect a jump in attacks on their cloud services over the next year
- 63% are increasing their cyber security budgets over the coming year
So, if cyber security wasn’t on your IT agenda before, perhaps these stats have persuaded you that it should be now.
There’s another reason why IT Security should be on every business’s agenda.
If you’re not already being asked by suppliers and clients to demonstrate that you have appropriate levels of data security in place, expect to be in the future. It’s likely to be a condition of engaging with your company.
Showing that you take your own IT protection seriously will win you more business and enhance your reputation.
How can you protect your data and systems AND demonstrate cyber security measures?
We recommend Cyber Essentials Certification and consider this to be the minimum standard of IT Governance.
To find out how secure your data and systems are, take our short quiz. The 16 questions are based on how likely you are to gain Cyber Essentials and the results will indicate how cyber secure your business is.
