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If you’ve seen different dates quoted for the UK’s PSTN switch‑off, you’re not alone.

The latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/26, published by the UK Government, reinforces a reality many organisations already recognise: phishing remains the most common and most disruptive type of cyber attack facing UK businesses and charities.

Cyber insurance premiums for UK businesses have risen sharply in recent years. Insurers are tightening underwriting requirements, increasing excesses, and in some cases refusing cover altogether - particularly for organisations with weak cyber security controls.

For years, organisations have measured their cyber maturity by how well they prevent incidents. How many controls are in place. How many standards are met. How clean the audit looks.

Ongoing global supply constraints are creating real friction for organisations that rely on physical infrastructure. Pricing is volatile, quote validity is shorter, and lead times for servers, storage and networking are increasingly unpredictable. Even when budgets are approved, delivery timelines can move without warning, delaying projects and increasing risk.

Operational excellence in the public sector is measured in outcomes: safer communities, healthier citizens, stronger local economies, and better day-to-day experiences for service users. Yet public bodies are operating under sustained budget pressure, rising demand, complex legacy estates, and a fast-changing risk landscape (including cyber). Technology can be a powerful enabler but only when it is implemented and managed in a way that supports resilient, efficient, and accountable service delivery.

Operational excellence has become a defining ambition for UK organisations. Faced with cost pressure, skills shortages, rising cyber risk and growing customer expectations, businesses are no longer asking whether technology supports operations but whether it actively improves them.

Join Wavenet’s cyber security and AI specialists for a focused webinar on how AI is reshaping the cyber risk landscape and what organisations must do to stay secure while realising AI’s value. We’ll examine how AI-driven attacks such as advanced phishing, deepfake impersonation and automation are increasing risk across the business, then show how treating AI risk as a governance issue, supported by layered people, process and technology controls, enables secure and responsible AI adoption.

Many organisations reach a point where their internal IT function is under increasing pressure. As environments become more complex and security expectations rise, relying solely on an in‑house team can become difficult to sustain. For these organisations, moving from internal IT to a managed service provider (MSP) can offer greater resilience, access to specialist expertise, and more predictable costs.