A new Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) has been launched in the UK to help measure the severity of cyber threats and their potential impact on organizations in the region.
The CMC is an independent nonprofit organization set up by the UK insurance industry to boost trust in the cyber insurance market and improve the nation’s understanding and response to cyber threats.
It’s already been operating behind the scenes for roughly a year, and was publicly launched at an event held by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on 6 February 2025.
The CMC’s mission statement compares itself to classification systems built to convey the intensity and impact of physical events, such as the Richter scale for earthquakes or the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
“The aim of the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) is to create the equivalent for the digital world – to design a way of consistently describing and communicating the seriousness and the severity of cyber events as they are occurring,” the CMC said.
The CMC Scale will run from one to five, from least severe to most severe, according to the proportion of UK-based organizations that are affected by the attack and the overall…
