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We've curated 247 cybersecurity statistics about the UK to help you understand how data breaches and cyber threats are shaping the landscape of digital security practices in 2025.

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59% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector say they've adopted email security training.

Exclaimer9/30/2025
Email security incidentTechnology

53% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector say they've adopted MFA.

Exclaimer9/30/2025
Email security incidentTechnology

26% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted AI detection.

Exclaimer9/30/2025
Email security incidentPublic sector

The U.S. and U.K. together represent over 70% of ransomware attacks.

KnowBe48/21/2025
Financial US

61% of UK organisations have created defined runbooks, roles, and processes for incident responses, which is ahead of the global average of 41%.

Commvault8/19/2025
Incident response

93% of UK businesses have experienced a business-critical cyber incident.

Commvault8/19/2025
Cyber incident

UK organisations are 11% less likely to have tested their recovery plans within the last month compared to other countries.

Commvault8/19/2025
Recovery

65% of UK organisations have an inventory of business-critical systems and dependencies, which is ahead of the global average of 50%.

Commvault8/19/2025
Inventory

Only 36% of UK organisations strongly believe that they should prioritise the minimum viability approach.

Commvault8/19/2025
Minimum Viability Company

52% of UK organisations stated that the biggest challenge to achieving Minimum Viability Company (MVC) status is the complexity of existing systems and applications.

Commvault8/19/2025
Minimum Viability Company

Almost a third (30%) of UK organisations cited difficulties separating 'core' systems from less business-critical, 'broader' operations as another primary barrier to achieving Minimum Viability Company (MVC) status.

Commvault8/19/2025
Minimum Viability Company

47% of UK organisations cited the struggle to keep recovery plans in line with changing business needs as the biggest challenge to achieving Minimum Viability Company (MVC) status.

Commvault8/19/2025
Minimum Viability Company

57% of business-critical incidents in the UK occurred in the past 18 months.

Commvault8/19/2025

Only 7% of the UK businesses surveyed reported never having experienced a "business-critical" incident, which is less than the 14% reported for the rest of the world.

Commvault8/19/2025

UK organisations are 21% less likely to have a dedicated environment in which to recover compared to other countries.

Commvault8/19/2025

79% of U.K. IT and security decision-makers say growing U.S. cybersecurity instability has made them more cautious with U.S.-based vendors.

Swimlane8/13/2025
EnterpriseUS cybersecurity instability

29% of U.K. IT and security decision-makers have delayed or cancelled contracts due to growing U.S. cybersecurity instability.

Swimlane8/13/2025
EnterpriseUS cybersecurity instability

57% of UK organisations recovered from backups when hit by ransomware.

Databarracks8/13/2025
RansomwareBackups

17% of UK organisations hit by ransomware in the past year paid the ransom. This figure is down from 27% in 2024 and 44% in 2023.

Databarracks8/13/2025
RansomwareRansom

72% of UK organisations have air-gapped backups.

Databarracks8/13/2025
Backups