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Cyber incidents continue to increase in frequency, scale, and business impact, driven by financially motivated threat actors targeting high-value data assets. Despite advancements in security technologies, many organizations remain underprepared to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to evolving threats.
Metrics
Key trends highlight escalating financial impact, expanding attack surfaces, and growing third-party risk exposure, reinforcing the need for enhanced investment, modernized controls, and mature incident response capabilities.
- Global average breach cost: ~US $4.44M / U.S. average breach cost: ~US $10.22M
- Multi-environment breaches (cloud + on-prem): ~US $5.05M average cost
- PII involved in ~53% of breaches
- AI-related risks emerging: ~16% attacker use; ~20% shadow AI exposure
- Average dwell time: ~241 days
- Third-party involvement in ~30% of breaches
ThreatScape
Cyber threat activity remains persistent and diverse, with widespread website compromise, insider involvement, financially driven attacks, ransomware prevalence, concentrated industry impact, and strong links to organized cybercrime groups.
- 4,800 websites/month are compromised with formjacking.
- 34% of breaches involve internal actors.
- 71% of breaches are financially motivated.
- 24% of malware incidents involve ransomware.
- 95% of breached records** come from government, retail, and technology.
- 36% of external actors** are linked to organized crime.
CyberPulse
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