The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today announced that it is working with the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC). The CMC is an independent, non-profit organisation set up by the insurance industry to categorise major cyber events.
The CMC and ONS are working together to develop questions about cyber events that can be deployed quickly in ONS's fortnightly Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) when future cyber events occur to assess their impact on businesses.
The questions will be deployed at the earliest opportunity within BICS following any cyber event that reaches a defined threshold, and answers published within a week of the survey closing, giving vital information about any impacts.
More information about and the latest findings from the BICS can be found in our latest Business insights and impacts release.
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