Risk Management
We've curated 53 cybersecurity statistics about Risk Management to help you understand how organizations are identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks, along with the latest practices and technologies being utilized to mitigate potential threats in 2025.
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85% of security leaders are concerned about AI-related infrastructure risk.
48% of security professionals say IT teams do not respond urgently to cybersecurity concerns.
Organizations that use an integrated, automated approach to risk management report a 27% breach rate in 2025.
60% of security professionals use business impact analysis to inform their risk prioritization.
Organizations that manage risk ad hoc or only after a negative event report a 50% breach rate in 2025.
40% of security professionals believe IT lacks an understanding of their organization's risk tolerance.
Use of risk-ranking methods to determine where LLM-generated code is safe to deploy increased by 12%.
28% of cybersecurity professionals in North America and Europe at companies with at least 1,000 employees believe they can prevent a rogue AI agent from causing damage (2026).
75% of organizations globally express high confidence in their overall cyber risk management strategies.
97% of CISOs agree that hybrid infrastructure provides greater resilience and risk management capabilities than relying solely on cloud or on-premises environments.
49% of IT leaders cited cybersecurity threats as the biggest disruptor in 2026.
90% of organizations experienced incidents caused by employee mistakes.
Malicious insiders accounted for incidents at 36% of organizations.
9% of IT leaders globally believe their organization has a 'highly effective' defense against AI-generated cyber threats.
72% of cybersecurity professionals agree that reducing security personnel significantly increases the risk of a breach in their organizations.
13% of IT leaders globally consider their organization's management of shadow AI risks as 'highly effective'.
60% of companies globally now have a chief risk officer as of 2024, an increase from 52% over the past two years, indicating a growing recognition of risk management as a priority.
66% of risk leaders stated they have reviewed and updated their IT and cyber risk management strategy in response to major disruptions such as the Crowdstrike outage or MOVEit breach
In 2025, 40% of companies reported that they mostly or only use spreadsheets to manage risk, a decrease from 53% in 2024, indicating a significant shift towards software use in risk management.
In 2024, 62% of companies were using or planned to use AI for risk management, which is projected to rise to 70% by 2025, reflecting a significant increase in AI adoption.