Incident Response
We've curated 20 cybersecurity statistics about Incident response to help you understand how organizations are detecting, managing, and recovering from security breaches and cyber threats in 2025.
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Only 51% of security operations leaders say their current SIEM is very effective at reducing mean time to detect and respond to threats.
70% of IT and security leaders say they have fully or mostly automated their threat detection and response process.
25% of IT and security leaders say their threat detection and response process is fully automated.
30% of teams take more than a full day to resolve an incident due to disjointed workflows between cloud and SOC teams.
38% of successful Canadian software buyers evaluated a vendor's reputation for incident response before purchase.
Investigating and responding to security alerts and incidents consumes 26.6% of Managed Service Provider (MSP) technician time.
8% of the security staff budget for Fortune 500 organizations with 50+ security FTEs is allocated to Incident response.
24% of executives at financial services firms acknowledge that their teams not being trained on incident response processes is a significant weakness that could slow recovery.
20% of executives at financial services firms acknowledge that having no effective incident response plan is a significant weakness that could slow recovery.
8% of internal financial services firms report mature response capabilities.
14% of MSSP-supported financial services firms report mature response capabilities.
46% of companies place a higher priority on incident response.
Three of the top seven elements involved in incident response involve some sort of purchase.
61% of UK organisations have created defined runbooks, roles, and processes for incident responses, which is ahead of the global average of 41%.
92% of respondents believe that unified cloud runtime security solutions would enhance incident response efficiency and contextualise alerts.
24% of CISOs are leveraging Ai to build enhanced incident response capabilities.
Automotive leaders suggest that dynamic and adaptive defense mechanisms, and incident response and management, are the areas where AI will have a big impact, with 28% citing each.
51% of respondents confirmed experiencing a security incident that demanded a dedicated response from security teams in the past 12 months.
33% of financial organisations increasingly use AI for automated incident response.
Incident response was the second security function where AI will provide the most value in the next 3 years, cited by 59% of respondents