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We've curated 14 cybersecurity statistics about Backup to help you understand how essential data recovery practices are evolving in 2025, ensuring that your critical information remains safe against potential data loss and ransomware attacks.
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62% of retailers who experienced attacks restored their data using backups in 2025, the lowest rate in four years
Nearly 29% of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have experienced a preventable client data loss event that could have been avoided with a dedicated backup solution.
Just 17% of organizations have recovery requirements for all business systems and applications needed for mission-critical services fully defined and documented.
Only 4% of organizations said they can ensure a clean, restorable copy of data for more than 90% of their mission-critical applications.
49% of senior IT decision-makers have experienced a major data loss event in the past year.
37% of senior IT decision-makers still rely solely on their SaaS application’s native backup capabilities.
11% of senior IT decision-makers state it would take a month or more to recover data after a loss incident, or that they might not be able to fully recover at all.
62% of senior IT decision-makers identify physically segregated storage as a top requirement for modern backup.
61% of senior IT decision-makers highlight physically segregated storage as a key requirement for modern SaaS backup.
59% of senior IT decision-makers identify immutable, encrypted storage as a top requirement for modern backup
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of respondents said threat actors were able to partially compromise backup and recovery systems.
35% of respondents said their backup and recovery systems were completely compromised.
94% of IT decision-makers said that immutable backups are essential to achieving a comprehensive ransomware protection strategy.
Most affected organizations could not recover all of their data after a ransomware attack.