The UK’s new Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) has been officially launched and aims to measure cyber incidents with greater clarity and precision.
The CMC’s approach will mirror the methodologies used for physical events, such as the Richter scale for earthquakes and the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale for hurricanes.
After a year in stealth mode, the CMC, an independent non-profit established by the UK insurance industry, was publicly launched during an event at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on February 6, 2025.
The center aims to monitor cyber events and categorize their intensity and impact on UK organizations.
Such cyber events include large-scale cyber incidents like the outages caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update in July 2024, data breaches, targeted disruptive cyber-attacks and supply chain cyber-attacks.
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