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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

Sophos11/9/2025
RansomwareEncrypted data

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.

Syncro10/16/2025
MSPData loss

Just 17% of organizations have recovery requirements for all business systems and applications needed for mission-critical services fully defined and documented.

index Engines10/15/2025
DataRecovery

Only 4% of organizations said they can ensure a clean, restorable copy of data for more than 90% of their mission-critical applications.

index Engines10/15/2025
DataRecovery

49% of senior IT decision-makers have experienced a major data loss event in the past year.

Keepit8/20/2025
Data loss

37% of senior IT decision-makers still rely solely on their SaaS application’s native backup capabilities.

Keepit8/20/2025
SaaS

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.

Keepit8/20/2025
Data recovery

62% of senior IT decision-makers identify physically segregated storage as a top requirement for modern backup.

Keepit8/20/2025
Physically segregated storage

61% of senior IT decision-makers highlight physically segregated storage as a key requirement for modern SaaS backup.

Keepit8/20/2025
SaaSPhysicall segregated storage

59% of senior IT decision-makers identify immutable, encrypted storage as a top requirement for modern backup

Keepit8/20/2025
Immutable storageEncrypted storage

Nearly three-quarters (74%) of respondents said threat actors were able to partially compromise backup and recovery systems.

Rubrik Zero Labs4/22/2025
Recovery

35% of respondents said their backup and recovery systems were completely compromised.

Rubrik Zero Labs4/22/2025
Recovery

94% of IT decision-makers said that immutable backups are essential to achieving a comprehensive ransomware protection strategy.

ESG4/9/2025
RansomwareImmutable backups

Most affected organizations could not recover all of their data after a ransomware attack.

ESG4/9/2025
RansomwareRecovery