Are We Really This Vulnerable?

JLR £72m in lost daily revenue

100,000 workers jobs at risk

£3.5 billion in revenue loss if production remains halted til November

M&S £300m profit hit

Co-op £206m revenue loss

This raises a critical question: how many other UK firms are similarly exposed?

Are we at apportioning blame too quickly?

– M&S did not have a back up

– JLR did not have cyber insurance

– Tata IT consultancy was the common thread

– The attacker persuaded IT they had lost their password, and they got in that way

– It’s teenage hackers (Really?!)

Is this not a National Emergency? Job losses, economic impacts?

This is a new era of digital warfare, where blame and piecemeal fixes will not do. Where is our coordinated national strategy that treats cyber resilience as a pillar of industrial policy?