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Infosecurity Europe 2025: The threat landscape confronting the channel and SMEs

At Infosecurity Europe 2025 in London, Simon Quicke, editor of Microscope and Brian McKenna, enterprise applications editor at Computer Weekly, discuss security and the IT channel, the threat landscape for UK SMEs and the implications of AI for cyber security. McKenna discusses the CyCOS project and an interview with Will Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, which covered the democratisation of ransomware beyond sophisticated Russian gangs. Quicke talks about the need for the channel to provide a balance of generalist and specialist security skills for their customers. But the channel is itself largely composed of SMEs, and the managed service providers among them are coming under increasing regulatory pressure as elements of critical national infrastructure. This has already happened with NIS2 in the European Union and there is cyber resiliency legislation on the cards in the UK. Even small companies can be part of a supply chain that affects bigger organisations. Moreover, SMEs feel they are on their own, according to the CyCOS project. Increasingly, says Quicke, smaller entities can be the way in for attackers. McKenna notes that the NCA’s Lyne emphasised that ransomware is the number one cyber threat to the UK and is amplified by the democratisation and commoditisation of attack tools. McKenna and Quicke reflect, finally, on the need for organisations to think about the implications of AI for cyber security, even while they are struggling with basic cyber hygiene due to – for SMEs especially – the constraints of time and money. Meanwhile, the IT industry is moving apace into agentic AI, as well as generative AI. Once again, security is some way behind cutting-edge enterprise technology. And the increasingly fraught geopolitical context is inescapable, for organisations of all sizes.