Ransomware is now in healthcare’s “blast radius”, exposing underinvestment and rising risk. Cyber incidents now directly affect patient care - not just IT. The challenge is decision-making. Leaders struggle to quantify risk and prioritise spend. So how can they stay ahead?
When cyber risk is inseparable from physical harm, a line of code is no longer just data; it is the command that opens a dam, shuts down a power grid, or overrides the safety sensors in a chemical plant. How can leaders anticipate the security and budgetary needs of operational technology?
What would a systemic cyber-attack cost the UK economy? We recently conducted a study for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to answer that question. The findings show the scale of potential disruption and underline why resilience planning matters.
What might a cyber-attack cost your business? Read more about the patterns we found in research we conducted for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) – and why those patterns still matter today, even as the threat landscape evolves.
Earlier this year the National Audit Office (NAO) warned that Government cyber resilience isn’t keeping up with the evolving threat. Unsurprisingly, digital and cyber resilience across public sector is now under unprecedented scrutiny and the pressure to act has never been higher.
As UK retailers made the press in a series of cyber-related incidents a familiar question surfaced again from colleagues - “Do we have a summary of key themes we can share with clients to support cyber conversations?”
Public sector organisations are key to our economy, providing essential services to the population. Given the importance of the sector, they are prime targets for cyber-attacks, due to data-rich environments, critical infrastructure, political and ideological motivations and interconnected systems.
Francesca Vallely
October 10, 2023
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3 min read
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