Protect your business from cyber threats
In this webinar, our expert panel discussed enhancing cyber resilience and navigating the evolving cyber threat landscape. They explored trends in recent cyber-attacks, explained how businesses can protect themselves and demonstrated how to measure, establish and improve your cyber security maturity.
They also shared the common themes emerging from cybersecurity benchmarking exercises conducted across organisations and discussed how businesses can adopt effective strategies to enhance their cyber resilience.
The key takeaways from the session
The threat landscape
- Cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated and easier to launch, with “hacking-as-a-service” lowering the technical barrier for criminals.
- All sectors and sizes are now targets. Recent incidents across global retail brands demonstrate that no organisation is immune.
- Social engineering and phishing remain top attack tactics.
Impact on businesses
- Financial losses, reputational damage and regulatory penalties can be severe and long-lasting.
- Business continuity and customer trust are often harder to rebuild than technical systems.
- Breaches continue to occur because of limited board engagement, under-investment and weak security culture.
Maturity matters
- Cyber security maturity reflects how well your organisation embeds security into strategy, culture and operations.
- Frameworks such as Cyber Essentials, NIST, and NCSC guidance combined with the Moore Kingston Smith cyber security maturity framework can help you benchmark and plan improvement.
- ISO27001 compliance alone is not a guarantee of resilience; it should be part of a broader, evolving strategy.
Lessons from benchmarking
- Common weaknesses: over-reliance on third-party IT providers, inconsistent technical and non-technical controls categories such as asset management and secure configuration, vulnerability management, and third party risk assurance.
- High performers show clear board-level accountability, strong support and resourcing for implementation teams, and a culture of continual optimisation for better ROI.
Building resilience
- Secure board level ownership and integrate cyber risk into business planning.
- Take stock of current capabilities, identify quick wins and create a long-term improvement roadmap.
- Consider alignment with recognised frameworks and seek external expertise where needed.
Next steps with the Moore Kingston Smith cyber team
- Cyber Essentials certification – establish fundamental controls for organisations at the early stages of maturity.
- Cyber security reviews – receive a baseline assessment and a tailored roadmap for improvement.
- Initial discovery call – a conversation to understand your business objectives and demonstrate how cyber security can act as a key enabler of growth and a facilitator of those goals.
