UK businesses urged to strengthen their cyber defences against fast-evolving AI-enabled threats

Businesses across the UK are being urged to strengthen their cyber defences, as the government takes action to protect the economy and essential services people rely on every day from fast-evolving cyber threats.

As part of a wider push to shore up the UK’s cyber defences, ministers are urging organisations across the economy to boost their resilience by signing up to a Cyber Resilience Pledge.

The pledge, launching later this year, sets out 3 concrete actions organisations can take to improve their cyber security:

• making cyber security a board-level responsibility
• signing up to the National Cyber Security Centre’s free Early Warning Service
• require Cyber Essentials certification across their supply chains – the UK government-backed cyber security standard that blocks the most common cyber threats.

Together, these steps help businesses reduce risk, protect customers and build confidence across the wider economy. Government steps up action to strengthen cyber defences as UK cyber industry continues to grow – GOV.UK