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cybersecurity statistics

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Cyber Attacks

2,244

13.3 seconds

39 seconds

Hacker attacks per day

39 seconds

13.3 seconds

39 seconds

Frequency of Hacker Attack

13.3 seconds

13.3 seconds

13.3 seconds

Business falls victim to ransomware (in 2019)

Cyber Victims

62%

62%

62%

Businesses experiencing social engineering or phishing attacks

64%

62%

62%

Businesses experiencing web attacks

43%

62%

43%

Small businesses experiencing cyber attacks

Cyber Attack SurfaCE

1.9 Billion

1.9 Billion

1.9 Billion

Global Websites

4 Billion

1.9 Billion

1.9 Billion

Global internet users (2018)


6 Billion

1.9 Billion

300 Billion

Global internet users (2022)

300 Billion

96 Zettabytes

300 Billion

Passwords globall (by 2020)

96 Zettabytes

96 Zettabytes

96 Zettabytes

Digital content (by 2020)

[1 Zettabyte = 1 Trillion GB]

111 Billion

96 Zettabytes

96 Zettabytes

Lines of new software code each year

200 Billion

200 Billion

200 Billion

Connected devices worldwide (by 2020)

500 Million

200 Billion

200 Billion

Wearable devices (by 2021)

20 Million

200 Billion

20 Million

Connected cars (by 2020)

Cybercrime

$1.5 Trillion

$1.5 Trillion

$1.5 Trillion

Cost of cybercrime globally (in 2018)

$6 Trillion

$1.5 Trillion

$1.5 Trillion

Cost of cybercrime globally (in 2021)

$8 Billion

$1.5 Trillion

$8 Billion

Ransomware payments (in 2018)

$3

11%

$8 Billion

Cost to acquire social security information, date of birth, or residential address

11%

11%

11%

Cybercrime money in banks

69%

11%

11%

Cybercrime money in real estate

$200 Billion

$200 Billion

$200 Billion

Laundered cybercrime money in circulation

95%

$200 Billion

$200 Billion

Ransomware profits cashed via bitcoin

$1 Billion

$200 Billion

$1 Billion

Annual profits for large cybercrime operations

$500,000

$2 Million

$1 Billion

Annual earnings of cybercriminal trafficking in stolen data

$30,000

$2 Million

$2 Million

Earnings per hacking job

$2 Million

$2 Million

$2 Million

Earnings of cybercrime specific platform managers

Cost of Breach

$3.9 Million

$4.13 Million

$3.9 Million

Average cost of data breach globally (2019)

$8.9 Million

$4.13 Million

$3.9 Million

Average cost of data breach in US (2019)

$4.13 Million

$4.13 Million

$4.13 Million

Average cost of lost business per company (2019) 

$225

50 days

$4.13 Million

Average cost per stolen record (2018)

50 days

50 days

50 days

Average cost in time of a malware attack (2018)

$1-$200

50 days

50 days

Cost of hacking tools

Cyber Spending

$1 Trillion

$1 Trillion

$1 Trillion

Global cybersecurity spending (2021)

$10 Billion

$1 Trillion

$1 Trillion

Global spending on security awareness training (by 2027)

$1,178

$1 Trillion

$1,178

Average cybersecurity spending per employee (2018)

Cybersecurity Workforce

3.5 Million

3.5 Million

3.5 Million

Unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally (by 2021)

313,735

3.5 Million

3.5 Million

Unfilled cybersecurity jobs in US (2019)

25%

3.5 Million

25%

Cybersecurity workforce shortage across all organizations (2018)

0%

36.5%

25%

Cybersecurity unemployment rate 

36.5%

36.5%

36.5%

Cybersecurity job growth rate (through 2022)

12x

36.5%

36.5%

Gowth in dDemand as compared to other non-IT jobs

Salary

$225,000

$225,000

$225,000

Chief Information Security Officer (Median)

$200,000

$225,000

$225,000

Global  Information Security Officer

$198,900

$225,000

$198,900

IT Security Consultant

$142,826

$142,826

$198,900

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer

$122,010

$142,826

$122,010

Cybersecurity Manager

$99,750

$142,826

$122,010

Cybersecurity Professional

$91,124

$259,000

$91,124

Cybersecurity Analyst (Risk, Policy)

$80,416

$259,000

$91,124

Risk Analyst

$259,000

$259,000

$259,000

Cybersecurity Researcher (Ph.D.)

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