Here are 31 scary Cyber Security Statistics
- A business falls victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds.
Cybersecurity Ventures, 2020 - 37% of organizations were affected by ransomware attacks in the last year.
Sophos, 2021 - Average ransomware payments have grown 82% in the last year; from $312,000 in 2020 to $570,000 in 2021.
Palo Alto Networks, 2021 - Cost of a ransomware attack: 54% is the actual ransom, 46% is other costs, such as lost business, cost to remediate, etc.
Cloudian, 2021 - Average ransomware remediation costs have doubled in the past year, from $761,000 to $1,850,000.
Sophos, 2021 - 77% of organizations go offline when hit with ransomware; 11% are down for more than 2 weeks.
Keeper Security, 2021 - The average downtime a company experiences after a ransomware attack is 21 days.
Coveware, 2021 - 79% of surveyed cyber IT professionals said no, they would not pay a ransom.
Menlo Security, 2021
- 32% of firms pay the ransom when breached, up from 26% in 2020.
Sophos, 2021 - Ransom payers that recovered their data: 71.6% in 2021, up from 66.8% in 2020.
Cyber Edge Group, 2021 - 80% of ransomware victims who paid the ransom experienced another attack soon after. 46% got access to their data but most of it was corrupted.
Cybereason, 2021 - 60% of ransomware victims experienced revenue loss and 53% stated their brands were damaged as a result.
Cybereason, 2021 - 78% of cyber professionals are most worried about business reputation after a cyber-attack.
ISACA, 2021 - 38% of companies reported that they lost customers after a breach.
Egress, 2021 - 47% of employees cited distraction as the reason for falling for a phishing scam while working from home.
Tessian, 2020 - Cyber Insurance increased 56% in Q2, 2021.
Marsh, 2021 - Cyber insurance covered 59% of the ransomware payment and other costs, possibly reflecting deductibles and coverage caps.
Cloudian, 2021 - RockYou2021, a dark web posting of 8.5 billion stolen passwords in a 100GB text file, exceeds the global population and can be used to hack computer services if people re-use these exposed passwords.
Enisa, 2021 - 31% of U.S. workers lend their work-issued laptops to friends, family, or peers.
HP Wolf Security, 2021 - 44% of organizations had a breach via a 3rd party supplier in the past 12 months.
Ponemon Institute, 2021 - 207 days is the average time to identify a breach, which means hackers are in your system for over 6-months.
IBM, 2020 - 93% consider an organization’s trustworthiness prior to purchasing. 59% would avoid doing business with a company cyber-attacked in the past 12 months.
Arcserve, 2020 - 35% of companies reported that their employees either circumvented or disabled remote security measures.
Palo Alto Networks, 2021 - Only 21% of security professionals think their current security controls are adequate.
Forrester, 2020 - In 2021, the largest ransomware payout ever was made by an insurance company – $40 million.
Business Insider, 2021 - About 1 in 6,000 emails contain suspicious URLs, including ransomware.
Fortinet, 2020 - Since 2020, 1,681 higher education organizations have been affected by 84 ransomware attacks.
Emsisoft, 2021 - Over 204,000 people experienced a login attempt to access their banking information.
Hub Security, 2021 - In 2021, the average ransomware payout by a mid-sized organization was $170,404.
Sophos, 2021 - 43% of all cyber-attacks target small businesses.
Cybint, 2020 - The top 4 brand phishing attempts include Microsoft (43% of all brand phishing globally), DHL (18%), LinkedIn (6%), and Amazon (5%).
Check Point Research, 2020
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