10 Cybersecurity Statistics Businesses Need to Know
Cybersecurity is vital to businesses of all sizes. Protecting data from hackers is fundamentally important to running a business. Every company holds sensitive information about its employees, clients, and business plans for the future. If you let this knowledge get into the wrong hands, it could bring down your business entirely.
The cost of cybercrime is too significant to ignore and the cost of an IT Service Company to help you prevent cyber attacks is too good an opportunity to pass up. A comprehensive cybersecurity plan is essential to your business. A major cyberattack can cost you to lose your reputation, employees, clients, and even your entire operation. Your security is a priority for the success of your business, which means it is also a priority to us.
Being proactive about these 10 cybersecurity statistics can help prevent your business from cybercrime. Our security solutions help ensure against potential security breaches, both from inside or outside your business. With both cloud-based and on-site infrastructure options, we custom-tailor solutions to meet your unique needs and requirements.
10 Cybersecurity Statistics
- More than 90,000 websites are hacked each day. That is equivalent to a cyberattack every 39 seconds.
- According to Verizon’s “2021 Data Breach Investigations” report, phising is involved in 36% of data breaches. Phishing is the most common cyber attack and is often delivered via email, tricking people into clicking a link or providing information that hackers can exploit.
- Every 14 seconds, businesses are victims of ransomware attacks.
- 53% of companies have more than 1,000 sensitive documents that employees can access and share.
- According to the IBM “Cost of a Data Breach 2021” report, 20% of data breaches were due to credential breaches.
- Small businesses make up 43% of all cyberattacks.
- Only 14% of small businesses are prepared to defend themselves against cyberattacks, according to Accenture.
- Cyberattacks cost all businesses, regardless of size, an average of $2 Million per year.
- According to the latest version of the Cisco/Cybersecurity Ventures “2022 Cybersecurity Almanac”, the cost of cybercrime is predicted to hit $10.5 trillion by 2025.
- According to the “Cost of a Data Breach 2021” report released by IBM and Ponemon Institute, it takes an average of 287 days for security teams to identify and contain a data breach.
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