Network Rail has described facing millions of cyber threats — a figure that captures how relentless and automated the modern threat landscape is. The vast majority of these are not hand-crafted attacks; they’re bots probing continuously for any weakness.
What it means for you
That volume is the point: you don’t have to be a famous target to be attacked constantly. Every internet-facing business is scanned around the clock, which is why a single unpatched system or weak password can be found quickly.
Defending against volume means automation of your own — continuous monitoring, automatic patching, and alerting that flags the genuine threats among the noise. That’s exactly what a managed SOC and vulnerability management give a smaller organisation without needing a 24/7 in-house team.
Source: ITPro, July 2026.