Government organisations are under growing pressure to strengthen resilience, protect sensitive data and respond faster to an evolving cyber threat landscape.
Bridewell’s 2026 research explores the cyber security challenges facing government organisations, from AI risk and data protection to incident response, skills shortages and the expanding attack surface.
What You’ll Learn
This report looks at how government organisations are approaching cyber security in 2026, where progress is being made and where resilience gaps remain.
Inside the report, you will discover:
- The top cyber security challenges for government, including data protection and privacy at 45% and AI cyber risk at 40%
- The scale of the threat, with 93% of organisations reporting a cyber attack in the past 12 months
- The leading impacts of attacks, including IT disruption or outages at 43%
- The factors leaving vulnerabilities exposed, from hybrid cloud complexity at 31% to skills and monitoring gaps at 30%
- How government incident response times compare across CNI sectors
- How organisations are tackling the skills gap, with 51% upskilling staff and 47% investing in automation and AI
