BERR Information Security Breaches Survey 2008

April 2008

Welcome to the Information Security Breaches Survey 2008, managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the UK Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). This survey of UK businesses, carried out every two years, is the UK's leading source of information on security incidents suffered by businesses, both large and small.

The 2008 survey results were launched at the Infosecurity Europe exhibition on 22nd April 2008. There are two reports available:

• A two page Executive Summary, downloadable here (0.5MB)
• A 32 page Technical Report, downloadable here (1.1MB)

We would like to thank Symantec, the Security Company (International) Limited and HP for sponsoring this year’s survey. We would also like to thank the fourteen organisations that acted as independent reviewers of this year’s report.

The main survey reports are available here and four fact sheets are available here, You can also download the 2002 and 2004 survey results here.

We recommend that you visit the BERR site, and the Get Safe Online site, for practical information security advice for businesses.