A Censuswide survey has gathered the views of UK organizations on the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which was trailed by the UK Government in July 2024’s King’s Speech. This new bill is expected to build upon the foundations laid by the EU’s Network and Information Systems (NIS) directive and is commonly seen as the UK’s response to the NIS2 directive.
Asked to react based on what they had heard or read about the new Act:
- 37% of respondents hope that the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill won’t apply to their organization, but almost 80% expect that it will.
- 46% of respondents expect the bill to make unwanted demands of UK businesses, but over 82% expected the bill to make reasonable demands of UK businesses. A similar proportion agreed that the bill would make necessary demands of UK businesses.
- Almost 88% of respondents agreed with the statement ‘The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will improve the UK’s overall cyber resilience’. Not a single respondent disagreed with the statement, despite the acknowledgement of the additional demands and overheads the new bill is likely to bring.
The survey was conducted on the behalf of Green Raven and surveyed 200 respondents from among the UK’s 1,930 organisations with at least 1000 employees.
