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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by EY

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Recent Statistics & Reports

23% of study respondents completed a technology rationalization effort in the last two years.

5/28/2025
Tools

Cybersecurity contributes 11% to 20% in value to each enterprise-wide strategic initiative it is involved in.

5/28/2025
Cybersecurity benefitsCybersecurity value

41% of respondents are undertaking a technology rationalization effort.

5/28/2025
Tools

For each initiative that involves cybersecurity, the median value creation figure is US$36m. This figure varies significantly by organization size, ranging from a median of US$11m per project for organizations with US$1b-US$4.9b in revenue, up to US$154m for companies with US$20b or more in annual revenue6.

5/28/2025
Cybersecurity benefitsCybersecurity value

Only 13% of CISOs in the study said they were consulted early when urgent strategic decisions were being made.

5/28/2025
CISO

41% of respondents are in the process of simplifying their tech platform.

5/28/2025
Tools

"Secure Creators" (organizations with more advanced cybersecurity functions than their peers) require smaller budgets — 10% smaller on average — and are less likely to cite budgets as a key challenge.

5/28/2025
Cybersecurity benefitsCybersecurity valueBudget

Cybersecurity contributes 11% to 20% in value to each enterprise-wide strategic initiative it is involved in.

5/28/2025
Cybersecurity benefitsCybersecurity value

Automation efforts have decreased respondents' mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) by 28%, on average.

5/28/2025
AutomationThreat detectionThreat response

74% of respondents reported they invested savings from optimization, automation, and outsourcing to address control weakness.

5/28/2025
Automation

46% of respondents used savings from optimization, automation, and outsourcing to increase coverage of the attack surface.

5/28/2025
Attack surface

Organizations use a median of 35 different cyber tools.

5/28/2025
Tools

18% of respondents have simplified their tech platform.

5/28/2025
Tools

Two-thirds (68%) of respondents used the cost savings generated from optimization on innovation and other AI initiatives.

5/28/2025
AI

Six in 10 respondents point to increased visibility across attack surfaces due to automation efforts.

5/28/2025
AutomationVisibilityAttack surface

Only 43% of cybersecurity functions are meaningfully involved in helping other functions adopt AI.

5/28/2025
AI

21% of C-suite leaders say their organisation currently invests more than 10% of their IT budget in cybersecurity. This number is expected to roughly double to 38% next year

4/15/2025
CybersecurityBudgetC-Suite

Two-thirds (66%) of CISOs say they are worried that the cybersecurity threats their organisation is facing are more advanced than their defences, which is significantly more than their C-suite counterparts (56%).

4/15/2025
Cybersecurity threatC-SuiteCISO

75% of CISOs say their organisation experienced a decrease in cybersecurity incidents following increased investment in AI, compared to the rest of the C-suite (68%).

4/15/2025
Security incidentAIC-Suite

Russell 3000 companies experiencing a cyber incident typically see their stock price decrease by 1.5% over the following 90 days.

4/15/2025
Security incidentStock price

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