CyberSecurity: The 49 Key Statistics | Wimi
The explosion of the Internet is considered by many to be the innovation of the century. But as with everything, there is always a flip side to the coin. With the Internet, cybercrime has also emerged.
Fraud, data theft, espionage, manipulation, viruses, etc., our private lives and data can be stolen, exposed, and used without our consent at any time. Today, cybersecurity is a major challenge for companies that must protect the data in their possession at all costs in order to maintain the trust of their customers and partners.
To see the extent of the phenomenon, discover 48 key figures and statistics on cybercrime and cybersecurity in France and abroad.
Cybercrime today
In France, 8 out of 10 businesses are affected by cyber attacks every year.
Compared to 2017, the number of attacks remained stable.
In 2018, phishing (or phishing) was the most frequent attack mode with 73% of affected businesses. As for the president's scam, it affected one out of two businesses.
59% of businesses surveyed say that cyber attacks have had an impact on their business. The consequences of these attacks are multiple:
- 26% businesses experienced a slowdown in production for a significant period of time;
- 23% have had their website unavailable for a significant period of time;
- 12% experienced delivery delays to customers;
- 11% had losses in turnover;
- 9% have been stopped in production for a significant period of time;
- 22% cited other negative effects (increased workload, reduced employee productivity, poor company reputation).
On average, businesses suffer 5 different types of attacks every year.
Among the cyber risks that the companies interviewed faced were:
- shadow IT, i.e. the fact of using applications or software not approved by the internal IT department (64%);
- permanent residual vulnerabilities (61%);
- an error in handling an employee (52%).
98% of the companies interviewed believe that digital transformation (use of the cloud and the Internet of Things or IoT) has an impact on the security of information systems and data. 87% of companies store part of their data in the cloud (52% in public clouds).
This practice makes companies more vulnerable to various risks such as access to company data by hosting provider administrators, non-control of the hosting provider's subcontracting chain. and the non-erasure of data.
Attacks involving the Internet of Things (IoT) have increased by 600% in 2017.
SMEs also victims of cyberattacks
43% cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses.
4 SMEs out of 10 (42%) have already suffered one or more attacks or attempted computer attacks.
The main types of attack: phishing (phishing in English) (24%); malware (20%); ransomware (English ransomware) (16%); fraud on the president (6%).
Regarding the protection of SMEs against cyberattacks:
- 36% of businesses surveyed change their desktop passwords at least once every six months;
- 39% businesses have triple protection (antivirus, firewall, anti-spam) for their desktop computers;
- less than a third of the companies surveyed (30%) have triple protection (antivirus, firewall, anti-spam) for their network.
98% of businesses have at least one backup tool.
The backup tools used by businesses are:
- an external medium (USB stick, external hard drive, etc.) (68%);
- a cloud solution (49%);
- an internal storage server (45%).
Cybersecurity: balance, costs and measures
Only 17% of SMEs are insured against computer attacks.
76% companies are making their employees aware of computer risks, including 44% at least every year.
On average, you have to 6 months to a company to detect a data breach.
Alone 38% global organizations claim to be equipped and able to deal with a complex cyberattack.
21% of all a company's files are open to everyone.
65% of businesses have more than 500 employees who have never changed their passwords.
90% Data breaches are caused by human error.
71% of Americans are afraid that their personal and financial information will be hacked while only 24% fear being a victim of terrorism.
In January 2019, 1.76 billion records have already been hacked.
In 2017, the average cost of a malware attack was 2.4 million dollars.
The costs of damage caused by ransomware (ransomware in English) will reach $11.5 million in 2019 and a company will be the victim of a ransomware attack Every 14 seconds this year.
Despite the meteoric rise in cybercrime, cybersecurity spending is only expected to increase by 9% per year and per company by 2023.
In France, 500 cyber investigators are deployed, as well as 2,000 investigators on the Internet and social networks and 300 first responders in cybercrime.
In 2019, theANSSI (National Agency for Information System Security) has an annual budget of 100 million euros for cybersecurity and a workforce of around 570 people.
Conclusion
Don't overlook cybersecurity and don't hesitate to invest in antivirus, firewalls, and other highly secure software to protect your personal data, that of your company and that of your customers.
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Sources: Cesin, Symantec, Small Business Trends, CPME, ZDNet, IBM, CPME, ZDNet, IBM, Varonis, Gallup, IT Governance, Accenture, Cibersecurity Ventures, Juniper Research, Clusive, Clusive, Clusive, The New Factory, The Digital World.
