Act Now to Enhance Your Business’s Cyber Resilience

In a joint blog by Shevaun Haviland CBE, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), and Baroness Lloyd CBE, Minister for Digital Economy highlight that almost all businesses are dependent on technology and access to their digital systems to create value and maintain operations. The growing adoption of emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, has the power to drive huge benefits for businesses. However, increased digitisation also brings new complex threats that cyber criminals are seeking to exploit.

The BCC and the UK Government are jointly calling on all businesses to take the following steps:

• Use the Cyber Governance Code of Practice: this resource sets out the fundamental actions to govern cyber risk effectively, including developing and testing incident response plans and creating a cyber security culture.
• Sign up to the NCSC’s early warning service: this free service informs your business of potential cyber attacks on your network
• Adopt Cyber Essentials and require it in your whole supply chain: Cyber Essentials is the minimum cyber security standard that businesses should have and prevents the majority of common attacks.
• Taking these steps will boost your business’s resilience to cyber threats, providing stronger protections, reducing your risk, and supporting growth.