NCSC Annual Review 2026
Looking back at the National Cyber Security Centre's tenth year and its key developments and highlights, between 1 September 2025 and 31 August 2026.
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Building strong foundations

AI-assisted cyber attacks will ruthlessly expose organisations that don’t have strong cyber security foundations in place.
In this chapter:
- Embedding cyber security into everything
Building a resilient UK starts with embedding cyber security into technology, services, organisations, people and leadership.
- Why ‘building strong foundations’ has never mattered more
Applying cyber security fundamentals is still the best way to repel many of the commodity attacks we see today.
- Securing the UK's internet
The NCSC works with internet service providers, hosting companies and cyber security partners to improve the underlying security of the internet, reducing opportunities for cyber criminals to operate and making the UK safer online.
- Passkeys: moving beyond passwords
The majority of cyber attacks against individuals begin with the theft, compromise or abuse of passwords.