Overview

This report explores how organisations across Europe are experiencing, preventing, and responding to cyber threats, and how cybersecurity maturity shapes those experiences. We segment respondents into two exposure-based groups those that experienced attack attempts but no breaches and those that faced at least one successful attack.

The report is structured across three key sections:

1. Cybersecurity Maturity Snapshot.

We begin with an overview of how respondents assess the maturity of their cybersecurity function and how integrated it is within broader business strategy. This sets a foundation for understanding differences in threat exposure and response.

2. Exposure Overview 
Next, we provide a high-level breakdown of threat exposure across the two respondent groups:

• Attack Attempts — Insights from Group A
  For organisations that avoided breaches despite receiving attack attempts, 
  we examine the nature of those attempts, how they were detected, and what 
  helped prevent them.
• Attack Outcomes — Insights from Group B
  For companies that experienced successful attacks, we explore how often 
  these occurred, the types of attacks, and the consequences of the most 
  impactful incidents.

3. Monitoring and Detection Confidence 
We conclude by examining how confident companies feel about their threat detection capabilities and how they monitor for incidents. This includes all exposure groups and highlights potential blind spots that may influence perceived security.

Throughout, we compare results by cybersecurity maturity tiers to help Aurora Live members benchmark practices and better understand their own exposure, strengths, and vulnerabilities.