# cyber-security

Source page: https://britishresilienceindex.com/deep-dive/cyber-security
Machine readable data: https://britishresilienceindex.com/data/deep-dive/cyber-security.json

## Sources

- undefined (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-20252026/cyber-security-breaches-survey-20252026)
- undefined (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2025/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2025-education-institutions-findings)
- undefined (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2025)
- undefined (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-and-social-cost-of-fraud-2023-to-2024)
- undefined (https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/news-and-insight/press-release/fraud-report-2026-press-release)
- undefined (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-research-on-the-economic-impact-of-cyber-attacks-on-the-uk)
- undefined (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/ncsc-annual-review-2025)
- undefined (https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/government-cyber-resilience/)
- undefined (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cyber-security-skills-in-the-uk-labour-market-2025/cyber-security-skills-in-the-uk-labour-market-2025)

## Caveats and data notes

- The Cyber Security Breaches Survey is a survey of organisations based on self reporting. It counts breaches or attacks that organisations identified, not every incident that occurred, and its producers warn its cost figures cannot be scaled into an economy wide total.
- The economy wide cost of 14.7 billion pounds comes from independent research commissioned by the government. Its authors describe it as indicative only, as it relies in part on overseas data and on modelling assumptions.
- The ONS Crime Survey covers England and Wales only and produces survey estimates with margins of error. Large year on year movements should be read with caution, especially the fall in computer misuse, which follows a sharp rise the year before.
- Survey measured computer misuse fell while offences reported to Action Fraud rose. The two measure different things, crime experienced versus crime reported, and both are shown here rather than choosing one.
- Payment fraud loss figures come from UK Finance, a banking trade body, not an official statistician, and cover losses reported by its members.
- The NCSC, NAO and survey figures count different things over different periods and for different populations, so they are not directly additive or comparable.

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