--- title: Securing What Matters: Why Cyber Resilience Needs... description: UK businesses faced over 5 million cyber crimes in the past year, averaging 14,000 incidents daily, with a 34% rise in attacks in June 2026. Security teams... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/securing-what-matters-why-cyber-resilience-needs-prioritisation-rf9fdrzuq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Securing What Matters: Why Cyber Resilience Needs Prioritisation | daily.dev og:description: UK businesses faced over 5 million cyber crimes in the past year, averaging 14,000 incidents daily, with a 34% rise in attacks in June 2026. Security teams... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/securing-what-matters-why-cyber-resilience-needs-prioritisation-rf9fdrzuq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rf9fdrZuq.png og:image:alt: Securing What Matters: Why Cyber Resilience Needs Prioritisation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Securing What Matters: Why Cyber Resilience Needs Prioritisation **[IT Security Guru](https://daily.dev/sources/itsecurityguru)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary UK businesses faced over 5 million cyber crimes in the past year, averaging 14,000 incidents daily, with a 34% rise in attacks in June 2026. Security teams cannot patch every vulnerability, and adversaries exploit this by flooding teams with alerts to obscure real breaches. AI is accelerating attacker reconnaissance and lowering barriers via cybercrime-as-a-service. The piece argues that relying solely on CVSS scores is insufficient — teams need intelligence-led vulnerability prioritisation that factors in real-world exploitation signals, threat actor activity, and ransomware group associations. Combining threat intelligence with automation enables proactive risk reduction rather than reactive patching. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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