Global CyberSecurity Awareness Month

∆95% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. (Cybint)

•The worldwide information security market is forecast to reach $170.4 billion in 2022. (Gartner)
•88% of organizations worldwide experienced spear phishing attempts in 2019. (Proofpoint)
•68% of business leaders feel their cybersecurity risks are increasing. (Accenture)
•Data breaches exposed 36 billion records in the first half of 2020. (RiskBased)
•45% of breaches featured hacking, 17% involved malware and 22% involved phishing. (Verizon)
•Between January 1, 2005, and May 31, 2020, there have been 11,762 recorded breaches. (ID Theft Resource Center)
•The top malicious email attachment types are .doc and .dot which make up 37%, the next highest is .exe at 19.5%. (Symantec)
•The average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million as of 2020. (IBM)
•The average time to identify a breach in 2020 was 207 days. (IBM)
•And the average lifecycle of a breach was 280 days from identification to containment. (IBM)By 2023, the total number of DDoS attacks worldwide will be 15.4 million. (Cisco)
•Attacks on IoT devices tripled in the first half of 2019. (CSO Online)
•Malicious PowerShell scripts blocked in 2018 on the endpoint increased 1,000%. (Symantec)•Worldwide cybercrime costs will hit $6 trillion annually by 2021. (Cybersecurity Ventures)
•Ransomware damage costs will rise to $20 billion by 2021 and a business will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds at that time. (Cybersecurity Ventures)
•Damage related to cybercrime is projected to hit $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. (Cybersecurity Ventures)
•In April 2020, Google blocked 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to Coronavirus. (Google)•Cloud-based cyber attacks rose 630% between January and April 2020. (Fintech News)
•Remote workers have caused a security breach in 20% of organizations. (Malwarebytes)
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