Half of UK IT leaders lack trust in government's cyber defense.
Over half (52%) of UK IT leaders believe the government cannot defend its citizens and enterprises against an act of cyberwarfare.
According to a survey of over 2,600 global security and IT decision-makers by Armis Labs, 56% of UK IT leaders are concerned about the threat of cyberwarfare, but only 27% have a plan in place to handle such a threat.
Also, 46% of those surveyed in the UK say geopolitical tensions with China and Russia have created a greater threat of cyberwarfare.
When asked if IT leaders experienced more threat activity on their network in the past six months, only saw an increase, but this rises to 37% for utilities organisations seeing an increase in attacks and 42% for those in the medical, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
