Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack shows that governments must provide post-incident support

As the JLR case has demonstrated, governments must offer support in the wake of major cyber incidents. There are strong rational and moral cases for governments to take an interventionist approach: to provide a vanguard for the growth agenda and to provide a cushion for employees. Doubtless, intervention needs to be calibrated so as to ensure that taxpayer funds are not dispersed unnecessarily and that companies are not encouraged to take on excessive risk. However, cautious intervention may reduce longer-term costs of joblessness, lost investment, and loss of confidence.