GDPR has led to a fall in cybersecurity breaches , according to the UK 's Department for Digital , Culture , Media and Sport . Statistics show that 22 % of businesses identified a breach or attack last year , down from 43 % in the previous year . “Genuine cyber-resilience comes from corporate muscle-memory, which is developed from incident response planning with legal, communications and IT security stakeholders, and which is sustained by testing and updating processes on a regular basis.” However , 48 % of the businesses and 30 % of the charities who were targeted faced at least one breach or attack each month , suggesting that hackers may be researching their victims before targeting them and that organisations are failing to identify the initial threat .
GDPR has led to a fall in cybersecurity breaches , according to the UK 's Department for Digital , Culture , Media and Sport . Statistics show that 22 % of businesses identified a breach or attack last year , down from 43 % in the previous year . However , 48 % of the businesses and 30 % of the charities who were targeted faced at least one breach or attack each month , suggesting that hackers may be researching their victims before targeting them and that organisations are failing to identify the initial threat .