The UK is “widely” underestimating the severity of the threat from cyberspace, the country’s cyber security chief will warn.
It comes as the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ – revealed there had been a three-fold increase in the most serious attacks compared with a year ago.
Companies, organisations and other parties must immediately do more to bolster their resilience to the evolving risk posed by increasingly sophisticated cyber weapons, enhanced by artificial intelligence, that can be used by hostile states and criminals, the NCSC said in an annual review published on Tuesday.
The gap between the complexity of the attacks and the means to defend against them is “widening” and “will only become more pronounced over time”, it said.
“It is therefore vital we increase our cyber resilience across the whole of the UK, and that we do so with urgency.”
Richard Horne, the new head of the NCSC, is set to give a speech in London later to accompany the launch of the report.
“Hostile activity in UK cyberspace has increased in…
