Cyber security and educating your employees
Cyber crime is an increasing worry for all businesses and enterprises in 2023, with instances and severity of attacks continuing to grow, but there are ways to lower your risk of exposure to it. One of those is to look to your workplace and staff and minimise mistakes.
- 32% of UK businesses reported suffering an attack or breach between 2022-2023.
- For medium businesses, this rises to 59%.
- For large businesses, this rises to 69%.
- The average cost of a breach against medium and large businesses was £4960.
- The proportion of micro-businesses listing cyber security as a high priority has dropped to 68% in 2023 – down from 80% in 2022.
- In 2022, 39% of UK businesses have experienced a cyber-attack, the same as in 2021. However, this has dropped since 2020 (46%).
- Of these businesses, 31% estimate they were attacked at least once a week.
- Cybercrime cost UK businesses an average of £4200 in 2021. For just medium and large businesses, this number rises to £19,400.
- The most common cyber threat facing UK businesses in 2022 is phishing (83% of identified attacks).
- 82% of boards or senior management in UK businesses see cyber security as a high priority. This is an increase from 77% in 2021
- Cyber security training for employees in place (46%)
- Multifactor authentication (MFA) to log on to work devices/systems (43%)
- Phishing and cyber scam simulation exercises (29%)
Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to contact one of our team.
Matthew.collins@ascendbroking.co.uk| Telephone: 01245 449 060
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