The Cyber Readiness Gap:
Is Your Risk Growing Faster Than Your Capability?

The question is no longer whether attacks will happen — it’s whether your organisation has the operational capability to contain and recover from then when they do. This barometer, produced with Tanium examines where retail genuinely stands and where the gaps between governance ambition and operations reality are widest.
- Cyber maturity benchmarks across five dimensions
From governance and accountability to incident reoponse readiness — where retail genuinely stands, scored by senior leaders. - Flat budgets, expanding attack surface
Why most organisations are maintaining spend while digital complexity compounds — and what the highest-performing cohort does differently - The Cyber Pressure Curve
Digtal estate complexity and threat levels are rising. Cyber headcount is not. How automation is closing — or widening — the gap. - Five implications for retail leaders
Recovery capability, tool consolidation as strategy, and why cyber resilience is becoming a commercial differentiator—not just a compliance function.

