Human Risk
We've curated 9 cybersecurity statistics about Human Risk to help you understand how human behavior, insider threats, and social engineering tactics are shaping security practices in 2025.
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97% of cybersecurity leaders feel the need for increased budget allocations to bolster the security of the human element.
45% of cybersecurity leaders cited constantly evolving AI threats as their greatest challenge when tackling behavioral risk.
Incidents relating to the human element surged by 90%.
64% of organizations fell victim to external attacks that exploited employees through email.
93% of cybersecurity leaders reported incidents caused by cybercriminals exploiting employees.
Strategic Human Risk Management (HRM) programmes can reduce risk 60% faster than traditional methods.
Mature HRM programmes have 5 times the visibility into risky behaviour compared to organisations relying solely on SAT.
Just 10% of employees are responsible for 73% of cyber risk. This also means that a small fraction of employees (specifically 10%) are responsible for 73% of risky behaviour.
Organisations relying solely on security awareness training (SAT) have visibility into only 12% of risky behaviour.