Our Incident Response data represents cases handled by our CIRT Team when responding to NCC clients. In 2023, the Financials sector observed the greatest percentage of incidents raised (15%), closely followed by Industrials (14%) and Government (14%). This reflected a shift in the top-three targeted sectors in 2022, from Government (18%), Industrials and Financials in joint second (13%) and Technology and Consumer Cyclicals (11%) in joint third. Over the last two years, the data suggests that Financials and Industrials remain of consistent interest to threat actors, with a growth of 2% in incident response cases for the Financials sector between 2022 and 2023. This is likely a combination of the potential for financial gain understood by cybercriminals where targeting these sectors successfully, as well as the continued need for sufficient cyber security hygiene to combat ever growing cyber threats.
Figure 1: Percentage of CIRT Cases by Sectors Impacted
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