In January, the government announced new measures that it hopes will help UK businesses when facing future cyber security challenges. The announcement details several new, free resources designed to help businesses recognise and combat cyber threats, strengthen the government’s National Cyber Security Programme and further the work done by Cyber Growth Partnership in order to expand the cyber security sector in the United Kingdom. Included in the announcement are the following measures to help businesses: (read more) "Cyber Security Boost for UK Firms"

In 2015, cyber crime became the most common criminal offence in the United Kingdom, with about 8 million cases. Despite these findings, 44 per cent of UK business do not believe that they will be a target of a cyber attack, according to industry research, and 71 per cent of cyber attacks are aimed at businesses with fewer than 100 employees. The reason is simple—generally, SMEs think they are too small to be valuable to hackers and thus do not invest in cyber security or cyber awareness training. (read more) "Cyber Attacks Targeting SMEs on the Rise"