{"id":235496,"date":"2026-06-23T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat-preparedness-as-cyber-risks-evolve\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:10:14","slug":"uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat-preparedness-as-cyber-risks-evolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat-preparedness-as-cyber-risks-evolve\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Firms Prioritize AI Threat Preparedness as Cyber Risks Evolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat\/\">UK Firms Prioritize AI Threat Preparedness as Cyber Risks Evolve<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-15 02:32:01<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary of the Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recent findings from ManageEngine reveal that AI-powered cyber-attacks are a top concern for UK cybersecurity professionals, who are gearing their investments over the next 12 to 24 months towards AI and advanced threat preparedness. A survey of 1500 IT and business decision-makers across the UK and other European countries showed that 43% of UK respondents consider AI-driven attacks as their biggest risk, surpassing traditional threats like ransomware and phishing. Moreover, 41% of UK respondents plan to spend most of their budgets countering AI and advanced threats. The research also disclosed that over three-quarters of UK businesses experienced cyber incidents in the past year, marking a significant increase compared to other European countries. It further highlighted critical challenges such as team fatigue and insufficient management support, alongside a considerable skills gap due to increasing threat sophistication. Despite these concerns, UK organizations showed proactive engagement in resilience frameworks and cybersecurity strategies, yet face ongoing issues related to recovery timelines and long-term improvements following incidents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI-powered cyber-attacks are identified as a top risk by 43% of UK cybersecurity professionals, leading to a significant focus on AI threat preparedness.<\/li>\n<li>The UK has experienced the highest rate of cyber incidents among European nations over the past year at a 77% rate, with a particular challenge being rapidly evolving threats.<\/li>\n<li>There is a notable skills gap in the UK due to escalating cyber threats, with only 46% of respondents indicating skills enhancement as the primary operational challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Teams in the UK face the highest rates of fatigue and burnout, which are contributing to persistent resilience challenges and longer recovery times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Firms Prioritize AI Threat Preparedness as Cyber Risks Evolve https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/uk-firms-prioritize-ai-threat\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-15 02:32:01&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/55261f69-bb0c-4821-8cd6-58f4f25cff77.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,25],"class_list":["post-235496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235498,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235496\/revisions\/235498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}