Author: Warwick Ashford / Source: ComputerWeekly
Cyber security is a high priority for just 60% of directors or senior managers in the finance and insurance sector, according to an analysis of Gov.uk data from 1,500 firms by commercial property agency Savoy Stewart.
The proportion of executives who rate cyber security as a high priority is lower in all other sectors, with the lowest being the hospitality and food sector, where just 15% see cyber security as a high priority.
Besides finance and insurance, the sectors above the average are education, health and social care (49%); information, communication and utilities (42%); professional, scientific and technical (39%); and retail and wholesale (39%).
Above the hospitality and food sector on the lower end are manufacturing (31%); admin and real estate (28%); construction (23%); transport and storage (23%); and entertainment and service (21%).
This is despite the fact that cyber security has featured increasingly in mainstream media because of several high-profile data breaches and the fact that millions of UK firms are being hit by cyber attacks.
According to research by business internet service provider Beaming, 2.9 million UK firms suffered cyber security breaches in 2016, costing them an estimated total of £29.1bn.
According to security professionals consulted by networking hardware company Cisco, the operations of an organisation…
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