National Crime Agency in the UK

The National Crime Agency in the UK has published the National Crime Assessment, it is a fantastic read and can be found here.

An interesting fact is that plain crime is at 47% total crimes committed, while computer misuse and computer enabled fraud total up to 53% of total crime. Thusly, cyber crime has tipped the scales and has overtaken other crimes.

Some thoughts, is it because not everybody has the right amount of security awareness? Is it because there is inconsistencies in tracking down the bad guys? The office of national statistics in the UK states that there were 2.46 million incidents with 2.11 million victims in the UK in 2015.

I feel that the reason why this is so is because not enough people are doing the right things… the basic things, to protect themselves and to protect what they are custodians and guardians of. Individually, government and businesses are not doing the very basic things to safeguard data.

Read the report here!