Industry Snapshots
Retail
Financial Services
Pressure point
Half of breaches now start with vendors and retailers are among the hardest hit.
Deepfakes are already bypassing financial controls is your insurance policy ready to respond?
Data theft, synthetic ID fraud, and payment manipulation are eroding traditional fraud defenses
Heavy reliance on SaaS and vendor systems, with peak-season continuity at risk
A single outage in a key trading period can erase an entire month’s revenue
Vendor stress-testing response planning cost far less than lost sales
Prevention spend alone is no longer enough
Verification and detection controls must now be funded to keep pace with deepfakes and synthetic attacks
Board spend case
Healthcare
TMT / Telecoms
Only 56% of directors feel well-informed about their cyber risks
TMT firms don’t just face disruption they export it to every client when systems fail.
Performance Increase
Systemic dependencies and cascading outages one software failure can impact thousands of customers
AI misuse is also rising
High breach frequency, coupled with regulatory fines and the threat of class actions
Investing in documentation and rehearsal avoids litigation and penalties later
Proactive spend is a fraction of the cost of regulatory defense
Continuity risk is magnified by reliance on critical SaaS and platform providers
Stress-testing contracts and failover is cheaper than explaining outages to regulators and investors
Public Sector and Education
Energy and Utilities
Public bodies are now prime targets, fraudsters exploit trust and bureaucracy as much as technology gaps.
Energy firms aren’t just managing cyber risk they’re managing national security risk.
Nation-state threats and operational technology (OT) exposure
Disruption here is often systemic and high-profile
Executive impersonation and payroll fraud are now hitting councils, schools, and agencies as often as corporates
Funding constraints make proactive spend harder, but regulatory scrutiny and public trust amplify the consequences of delay
Regulators and governments now treat outages as national resilience issues
Boards must prove they can withstand and recover from attacks insurance only responds if preparation is clear
