The Cyber Resilience Pledge has now launched in response to a signifcant rise in the threat landscape – with UK businesses now under near-constant cyber-attack. In fact, the NCSC reports cyber crimes to occur every six seconds, costing organisations £14.7 billion annually. Over 60 businesses, including Nationwide, Microsoft and Cloudflare, have already committed to the pledge in an attempt to strengthen cyber defences against the evolving threat landscape.
For rapidly expanding industries like the IoT, resilience becomes more complex. As organisations digitise, their most critical functions increasingly depend on connected devices and IoT infrastructure. This growing reliance expands the threat surface and demands a new level of vigilance, while also introducing vulnerabilities that can no longer be ignored.
Iain Davidson, Head of Product Marketing at Wireless Logic, offers the following insights on the Cyber Resilience Pledge, and how organisations can further ensure resilience:
“This is a useful step forward, but it won’t be meaningful if treated as a boardroom exercise rather than an operational one. AI is making cybercrime faster, cheaper and easier to scale – but the bigger issue is how dependent our economy has become on connected devices, which often sit beyond the traditional view of IT.”
“Payment terminals, EV chargers, healthcare devices, logistics systems and industrial sensors are a crucial part of how modern services are delivered. If they fail, the impact isn’t just technical. Customers are affected, revenue is disrupted and trust is damaged. And the fine is often the smallest part of the bill. The real cost compounds through downtime, reputational damages, and increasingly, exclusion from procurement frameworks that now assess a supplier’s security posture before the contract conversations even starts. The priority for all organisations must be better visibility. They need to know what’s connected, which devices are critical, what normal behaviour looks like and where supplier dependencies could create blind spots. AI has a role to play here too, helping teams spot abnormal patterns early and prioritise what needs attention before disruption spreads.”
“With regulations like the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and the EU’s upcoming Cyber Resilience Act pushing even more accountability to any organisation manufacturing or selling connected devices, security cannot stop at the design stage of the device or launch. Instead, it must span across the whole lifecycle. Engineering and product teams must plan for all obligations they are responsible for – vulnerability management, firmware updates, patch deployment, breach disclosure, incident response, none of which are one-time activities. As a result, organisations really can’t afford to treat device security as someone else’s problem. While Cyber Essentials and early warning tools are sensible foundations, real resilience comes from the ability to act quickly whenever something changes.”
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