Bravo, El Reg .... Leading in Novel Virtual Revolution and AI Evolution .. with Future Education.*
"Although these latest numbers imply that businesses are identifying fewer breaches and attacks, the reasoning behind this drop is extremely nuanced."
Quite so. It can be case that punitive pecuniary punishment from high and mighty regulators with nothing to offer in the way of virtual protection and remote security results in fewer business reporting worrisome breaches which they both have and/or haven't identified.
All of which is PAR for the course, some may say, for the clunking fist of British bureaucracy.
* There's bound to be surely, extensive and expensive government grant funding for such programming, give the catastrophic cost which can be wrought when one is defined and treated as a victim with no input to output.