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Given the growing cyber risk and number of significant incidents, have public companies made a proportionate investment in cyber governance and resilience? Whilst growing cybersecurity vendor revenues point to improving cybersecurity maturity, a further source of insight can be derived from how public companies report on cyber risks and threats. Westlands Advisory recently conducted a comparative analysis of cybersecurity terminology in the annual reporting of the Dow Jones Core 30 and Euronext Core 30 companies.

The United Kingdom’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR), titled “Making Britain Safer: Secure at Home, Strong Abroad,” underscores an unprecedented emphasis on cyber threats and capabilities. The review – the first “root-and-branch” overhaul of UK defence in 25 years – repeatedly highlights “cyber” as both a critical danger and a key enabler in modern defence strategy.

The advent of quantum computing presents one of the most profound shifts in cybersecurity since the invention of public-key cryptography. As quantum technology rapidly develops, it poses a direct threat to the classical encryption algorithms that underpin the global financial system, digital identities, secure communications, and data privacy. To prepare for a Quantum-Safe future, government agencies and critical infrastructure operators should start with cryptographic discovery and classification.