What Did We Learn from the NCSC’s 2025 Annual Review?

Earlier this year, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released its annual review for 2025. The report reveals the troubling reality of the modern threat landscape and, crucially, how the NCSC recommends organizations and the wider security ecosystem shield themselves from it. Let’s dive in. Incident Frequency Has Stagnated, Incident Severity Has Skyrocketed The number of incidents for which the NCSC provided support has remained largely unchanged. The severity of those incidents, however, has skyrocketed. The NCSC sorts all incidents into one of three categories: Category 1...

Source: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/what-learn-ncsc-2025-annual-review