Financial Services
We've curated 113 cybersecurity statistics about Financial Services to help you understand how threats like phishing and fraud are impacting banking and investment practices in 2025. Stay informed on the latest protective technologies and strategies shaping the sector!
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36% of U.S. financial services executives reported lacking sufficient internal expertise to meet regulatory mandates.
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50% of firms in the financial services industry are still operating on outdated or on-premise infrastructure, which fails to meet modern transparency and documentation requirements.
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.
Financial services organizations have 35% of their devices classified as extended IoT.
For transactions in the Dominican Republic, the financial services sector reported the highest suspected fraud rate at 18.2%.
Financial services globally experienced a suspected fraud attempt rate of 3.3% in H1 2025.
82% of Financial Services professionals are very confident in their AI skills.
68% of Financial Services professionals are using AI daily.
Only 2% of Financial Services professionals reported no AI training at all.
68% of AI users in financial services engage with AI daily.
80% of employees in the financial services industry have received training on AI safety and data security.
2% of employees in financial services reported no training in AI tools.
78% of financial services firms report fixing critical vulnerabilities in business-critical assets within 14 days, indicating they narrowly meet strict internal SLA requirements.
Cross-site scripting (Web/API): 5.0% in the financial services industry (versus 9.7% average in other industries).
The financial services industry resolves about two-thirds (66.7%) of serious findings. This ranks the industry 10 out of the 13 industries Cobalt researched.
Sensitive data exposure: 10.5% in the financial services industry (versus 8.0% average in other industries).
Industries like hospitality resolve serious findings significantly faster than the financial services industry (61 days vs 20 days).