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UK fintech is one of the country's fastest-growing sectors, but its reliance on APIs, partnerships, and real-time data makes it a prime target for cybercriminals. This blog explores why fintechs are so exposed, what the latest UK data reveals about breach costs and supply chain risk, and how cyber threat intelligence helps firms grow securely.

Most agentic triage solutions hand you a verdict and stop right there. Maybe you get an alert ranking, maybe a severity score, maybe some light investigation, but you, as the analyst, still have to do the cleanup manually. There is still a mountain of evidence that needs to be gathered by hand, and a mountain of cases to dig through on your own.

Stolen or misused credentials are the second most common way for attackers to get in, according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The consequences can be severe, with the average cost of a data breach reaching a record high of $10.22 million in the United States, according to the IBM Cost of Data Breach Report. A major driver behind these security incidents is that engineering teams confuse authentication and authorization quite frequently.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud has once again earned the highest possible score in AV-TEST’s business Windows endpoint protection evaluation, achieving 18 out of 18 points in the May–June 2026 test. The latest result also extends a consistent record in AV-TEST’s business Windows evaluations. Acronis achieved the same 18/18 result in the February and April 2026 tests, making the May–June evaluation its third consecutive perfect overall score in 2026.

Enterprises missed 60% of incidents because their existing tools produced no high-confidence alerts, according to Kaspersky's 2025 compromise-assessment findings. An indicator of compromise is useful, but static matching alone won't reliably reveal an attacker who has learned how to blend into normal activity.