UK businesses face converging business interruption, cyber and supply chain risks but are poorly prepared to measure or manage them, according to a new report from Aon.
The broker’s report, Navigating Business Disruption in the UK: Strategies for a New Risk Reality 2026, drew on UK findings from its 2025 Global Risk Management Survey. It argued that these risks are increasingly compounding one another, deepening financial damage and extending recovery times in ways traditional risk frameworks are not built to handle.
Many UK organisations have already suffered. The survey found 27.3% had suffered significant financial losses from business interruption, 30.8% from supply chain disruption, and 9.3% from cyber incidents.
Yet formal plans remain rare. Only 21.6% have a formal risk management plan for business interruption, 23.6% for supply chain risk and 24.6% for cyber.
Fewer still have measured their exposure. Only 16% have quantified their exposure to business interruption, 12.4% to supply chain disruption, and 13.1% to cyber.
Aon said that without that quantification, senior leaders struggle to make informed investment decisions, structure the right insurance programmes or plan for...