Businesses must bank on secure future

The head of Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, Lindy Cameron, warned in a speech at the beginning of this week that ransomware attacks from criminal networks were now a bigger threat to Britain’s security than online threats from hostile states.

It’s an issue recently highlighted in cyber security firm SonicWall’s 2021 Cyber Threat report, which indicated ransomware attacks had increased by more than 60 per cent globally to nearly 305 million in 2020.