Cybercrime: Business

(asked on 26th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many businesses have taken up the Cyber Essentials Scheme.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 4th March 2019

As of the end of January 2019, the total number of Cyber Essentials certificates awarded to organisations was 23,097. The scheme was launched in 2014 and of this total, around a half of certificates (11,789) were awarded in 2018.

82% of the total number of certificates have been awarded to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs.)

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