Helping build a more sustainable world Sustainability moved higher up our agenda with Executive responsibility appointed at the start of the financial year. It is fundamental to our mission of making the world safer and more secure. We have continued to follow the recognised framework of ESG, and this year made material progress in each area. Environmental: We partnered with Planet Mark this year and are driving forward a top-down engagement programme to map NCC Group’s net zero by 2050 journey. In addition to this, we’re reporting for the first time against the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework, and we laid the foundations for launching our first green car salary sacrifice scheme for all UK colleagues in FY23. Social: We’ve continued to invest in our colleague resource groups, with two new groups being formed to support accessibility and giving something back. And we’ve continued to expand our sponsorship activities to support making a career in cyber accessible for all. Governance: While our focus has been reporting against TCFD for our own business, we have been, through our public affairs team, looking ahead at cyber resilience related regulations that may impact our customers, and looking at our how we design solutions to meet those future needs. Recognition of our efforts in this executive-led focus was reflected in our 2022 Sustainalytics rating moving from the Medium Risk category to the Low Risk category, compared to the 2021 rating.
Sustainable growth through investment in resilience This was a year that brought into sharp focus why resilience is, and will continue to be, so central to our organisation. For our customers, it’s driven by the macro environment. Investing in cyber resilience is the only way to adapt to society’s increasing dependence on a complex connected environment. The threat landscape has never been more challenging. But we have continued to refine our offer to provide organisations around the world with a level of resilience that helps them face that threat and move forward with confidence. This was a year that really showed the significant value of having built a resilient team: a team that has successfully adapted to a constantly changing external environment; a team that has reacted admirably to significant change over this financial year – and in previous years – as we put the fundamentals in place to enable NCC Group to achieve its vision; and a team that is more inclusive, open and diverse than ever before, and therefore better able to handle the challenges we face each day. We are not complacent about the work still to do on all fronts; however, we are confident that with our track record and focus on resilience, we provide the platform for continued sustainable growth to create value for all our stakeholders.
Chris Stone Non-Executive Chair 6 September 2022
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