UK businesses are rapidly losing confidence in the government’s ability to protect them from cyberattacks. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers Armis, which states that the lack of faith is higher than anywhere else in Europe.
To draft the report, Armis surveyed more than 2,600 global security and IT decision-makers, and included proprietary data from Armins Labs.
In the paper, the company said that more than half (52%) of UK IT leaders believe the government can’t defend its citizens and enterprises from cyberwarfare, down from last year, when 77% thought otherwise.
Attacks rising
To put things in perspective, in Germany, 40% of IT pros don’t trust their governments, while in France, 42% said the same.
At the same time, threats are on the rise. Global events, including the war in Ukraine and the Middle East, tensions between China and Taiwan, US presidential elections, and the UK elections set to take place before the end of the year, are all turning the internet into a full-blown battlefield, and UK companies are on the front lines, the survey’s…
