There’s a new UK cyber attack severity rating system – here’s what it means The government is launching a crackdown on devastating and costly cyber attacks in the UK with a new system that is being launched today.
Dr Ian Batten, a cyber security expert at the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy, told Metro: ‘If you get a major incident in a large organisation the results can be absolutely devastating.
Cyber experts are warning that ‘the risk of major cyber events is greater now than at any time in the past’ as the new rating system comes into force.
The cyber security watchdog the Cyber Monitoring Centre will rate incidents on a scale of one (least severe) to five (most severe).
Hackers launched over 7,000,000 cyber attacks in the UK in 2023, with these security breaches costing the British economy £27,000,000,000 each year.
