Financial services
We've curated 113 cybersecurity statistics about Financial services to help you understand how evolving threats like phishing, data breaches, and advanced fraud techniques are reshaping the industry in 2025.
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53% of CFOs in the financial services sector ranked evolving regulations as a top concern, compared to 38% of CIOs, highlighting a disconnect between financial and technical teams.
54% of firms in the financial services industry still rely on spreadsheets or in-house systems to track security controls.
42% of U.S. financial services executives identified staying current with evolving regulations as their top compliance challenge.
51% of firms identified data discovery as a top priority for improving audit readiness and control visibility.
50% of firms in the financial services industry are still operating on outdated or on-premise infrastructure, which fails to meet modern transparency and documentation requirements.
36% of U.S. financial services executives reported lacking sufficient internal expertise to meet regulatory mandates.
Financial services organizations have 35% of their devices classified as extended IoT.
Financial services globally experienced a suspected fraud attempt rate of 3.3% in H1 2025.
For transactions in the Dominican Republic, the financial services sector reported the highest suspected fraud rate at 18.2%.
68% of AI users in financial services engage with AI daily.
2% of employees in financial services reported no training in AI tools.
Only 2% of Financial Services professionals reported no AI training at all.
80% of employees in the financial services industry have received training on AI safety and data security.
68% of Financial Services professionals are using AI daily.
82% of Financial Services professionals are very confident in their AI skills.
Server security misconfigurations: 34.9% in the financial services industry (versus 27.9% average in other industries).
Sensitive data exposure: 10.5% in the financial services industry (versus 8.0% average in other industries).
Components with known vulnerabilities: 6.1% in the financial services industry (versus 5.5% average in other industries).
Approximately one-third of serious issues are never resolved by the organizations in the financial services industry, contributing to backlog and systemic risk.
Financial services firms demonstrate strengths in avoiding common, code-level flaws due to mature security programs and automated scanning (SAST/DAST). However, they struggle with vulnerabilities that require human-led testing.