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Recent Statistics & Reports
The global average breach lifecycle (mean time to identify and contain a breach, including restoring services) dropped to 241 days, a 17-day reduction from the year prior.
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Breach lifecycle
Breaches across the healthcare sector take the longest to identify and contain at 279 days, which is more than 5 weeks longer than the global average of 241 days.
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Data breachHealthcareDetect
13% of organisations reported breaches of AI models or applications.
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Data breachAIAI-related breach
The average cost of an extortion or ransomware incident remains high, particularly when disclosed by an attacker ($5.08 million).
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RansomwareExtortionRansomware cost
There was a significant reduction in the number of organisations that planned to invest in security following a breach: 49% in 2025 compared to 63% in 2024.
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InvestmentData breachData breach consequences
Healthcare breaches remained the most expensive, averaging $7.42 million.
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Data breachHealthcareData breach cost
Organisations using AI and automation extensively throughout their security operations saved an average of $1.9 million in breach costs.
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AIAutomationBreach costs
Only 37% of organisations have policies to manage AI or detect shadow AI.
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AIShadow AI
Organisations that detected a breach internally observed a $900,000 savings on breach costs compared to those disclosed by an attacker.
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Data breachDetection
Nearly all organisations studied suffered operational disruption following a data breach.
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Data breachData breach consequencesOperation disruption
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