Cyber threats are becoming more frequent, more sophisticated and more disruptive.
No organisation can remove cyber risk entirely. But organisations can make it harder for attackers to succeed, improve their ability to detect threats and be better prepared to respond when something goes wrong.
That is the thinking behind the UK Government’s Cyber Resilience Pledge.
At Maple Networks, we are proud to have signed the pledge and committed to the actions it sets out.
The Cyber Resilience Pledge is a voluntary commitment designed to help organisations take practical steps to improve their resilience to cyber attacks.
It focuses on three key areas:
The pledge also encourages organisations to promote these actions across their own supply chains.
These are not abstract commitments. They are practical steps that can improve visibility, accountability and preparedness.
As a cyber security provider, we spend every day helping organisations understand and manage cyber risk.
We work with organisations across sectors including healthcare, higher education, local government and commercial environments. Across all of them, one thing remains consistent: cyber security cannot sit with one team or one supplier alone.
It needs ownership from leadership. It needs collaboration across the supply chain. And it needs organisations to be prepared before an incident happens. That is why the Cyber Resilience Pledge stood out to us.
It focuses on the fundamentals that can make a real difference.
The first commitment is to make cyber security a board responsibility.
That matters because cyber risk is ultimately business risk.
A cyber attack can affect service delivery, finances, reputation, compliance and the people who rely on an organisation’s services. It should therefore be part of wider organisational decision-making, not treated as an issue that sits solely with the IT or security team.
Strong cyber resilience requires leadership, accountability and understanding.
The second commitment is to sign up to the NCSC’s Early Warning service.
The principle is simple: the sooner organisations know about a potential threat, the sooner they can take action.
Early intelligence can give organisations more time to investigate, strengthen defences and respond before a threat becomes a serious incident.
In cyber security, time matters.
The third commitment focuses on Cyber Essentials across supply chains.
Modern organisations depend on complex networks of suppliers, partners and third parties. That means cyber resilience cannot stop at the edge of your own network.
A weakness in one organisation can create risk for another.
Taking a risk-based approach to Cyber Essentials across supply chains is one practical way to raise the baseline of security and improve confidence in the wider ecosystem.
Signing the Cyber Resilience Pledge is not the finish line.
Cyber resilience is an ongoing process. Threats change. Technology changes. Organisations change.
The organisations that are best prepared are the ones that continue to review, test and improve their approach.
We are proud to have signed the pledge because it aligns with something we believe strongly at Maple Networks: stronger cyber resilience is built through shared responsibility, practical action and continuous improvement.
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