Workers Are Covering Up Cyber Attacks For Fear Of Reprisal
ITPro, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Research shows that fear of the consequences is driving employees to cover up security failures
UK businesses face a huge hidden cyber risk that's driving security practitioners mad: employees keeping quiet about cyber attacks.
More than one-third of office workers (39%) said they wouldn't tell their cybersecurity team if they thought they had been the victim of a cyber attack - and it's not for a lack of security awareness.
A survey of 4,500 workers across EMEA by data security and management firm Cohesity found that British employees are more aware of cyber threats, such as ransomware, than their counterparts in France and Germany.