88% of UK businesses have been breached in 2018

Cyberattacks are growing in volume and the average number of breaches in the UK has increased according to Carbon Black’s second UK Threat Report.

The endpoint security firm surveyed over 250 UK CIOs, CTOs and CISOs from organisations across a range of industries to compile its report which builds on its first survey conducted in August of last year.

Carbon Black found that 88 percent of UK organisations reported suffering a breach during the last 12 months with the average number of breaches per organisation over the past year reaching 3.67, up from 3.48 in its last report.

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