Working within the cyber industry or providing services into it, we believe comes with a responsibility to build the sector to have a focus on quality and raising standards, both in your own organisation and those of your customers.
With the UK Government having announced a £700k investment in July to boost cyber growth across the UK, the work of the UKC3 team has taken on even more importance. Ensuring that the cyber clusters across the nations are able to access this funding and work collaboratively to generate growth in cyber businesses is central to their work and we at Cyber East are excited to work closely with them as we grow.
The impact of cyber-crime in the East of England is very real, with recent significant incidents reported from the legal, education and retail sectors. The losses this has led to between January and July 2021 in the East alone is over £233m according to Action Fraud – an eyewatering amount. No business is too small, and all sectors are at risk.
We all know we are living in an increasingly connected world, and with this comes fast evolution of the threats we all face at a personal, business and national level from cyber-crime as highlighted in the UK Governments National Cyber Strategy 2022.
With the UK Government having announced a £700k investment in July to boost cyber growth across the UK, the work of the UKC3 team has taken on even more importance. Ensuring that the cyber clusters across the nations are able to access this funding and work collaboratively to generate growth in cyber businesses is central to their work and we at Cyber East are excited to work closely with them as we grow.
