UK businesses: cyber security breach recovery time 2022

As of 2022, 70 percent of businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) that recalled their most disruptive breach or attack in the last 12 months, reported that it took no time at all to restore business operations to normal after the most disruptive breach. On the other hand, one percent stated that it took them over a month to recover after the incident. The same survey found that in the case of 8 percent of the respondents it took less than a week to restore business operations.

How long did it take to restore business operations back to normal after the (most disruptive) breach or attack was identified?

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

October 16, 2021 to January 21, 2022

Number of respondents

540 respondents

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among UK businesses that recalled their most disrcuptive breach or attack in the last 12 months

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "For businesses, analysis by size splits the population into micro businesses (1 to 9 employees), small businesses (10 to 49 employees), medium businesses (50 to 249 employees), and large businesses (250 employees or more).
We carried out 35 in-depth interviews between December 2021 and January 2022, to gain further qualitative insights from some of the organizations that answered the survey. Sole traders and public-sector organizations were outside the scope of the survey. In addition, businesses with no IT capacity or online presence were deemed ineligible. These exclusions are consistent with previous years, and the survey is considered comparable across years."

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