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Recent Statistics & Reports
73% of global business leaders were or knew someone directly affected by cyber-enabled fraud in 2025.
1/13/2026•
Cyber-Enabled Fraud
87% of global business leaders reported experiencing rising AI-related vulnerabilities in 2025.
1/13/2026•
AI-Related Vulnerabilities
Smaller organizations are twice as likely to report insufficient resilience compared to large firms.
1/13/2026•
ResilienceSmall business
63% of organizations in sub-Saharan Africa reported insufficient cybersecurity skills to achieve their security objectives.
1/13/2026•
Cybersecurity SkillsTalent ShortageRegional Issues
31% of global business leaders reported low confidence in their nations' ability to respond to critical infrastructure attacks.
1/13/2026•
Critical Infrastructure Attacks
94% of global business leaders expect AI to be the most consequential force shaping cybersecurity in 2026.
1/13/2026•
AI Impact
65% of large companies cited third-party and supply chain risks as their greatest cyber resilience barrier in 2026, up from 54% in 2025.
1/13/2026•
Third-Party RisksSupply Chain RisksResilience
65% of organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean reported insufficient cybersecurity skills to achieve their security objectives.
1/13/2026•
Cybersecurity SkillsTalent ShortageRegional Issues
66% of organisations expect AI to have the most significant impact on cybersecurity in the year to come, but only 37% report having processes in place to assess the security of AI tools before deployment.
1/1/2025•
AI
Only 14% of organisations are confident that they have the people and skills they need today.
1/1/2025•
TalentSkills gapStaff
Nearly 60% of organisations state that geopolitical tensions have affected their cybersecurity strategy.
1/1/2025•
ResilienceGeopolitics
72% of respondents report an increase in organisational cyber risks.
1/1/2025•
Cyber risks
36% of respondents in Africa and 42% in Latin America lack confidence in their country's ability to respond to major cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure.
1/1/2025•
ResilienceAfricaLatin America
36% of respondents in Africa and 42% in Latin America lack confidence in their country's ability to respond to major cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure.
1/1/2025•
ResilienceAfricaLatin America
35% of small organisations believe their cyber resilience is inadequate, which is a sevenfold increase since 2022.
1/1/2025•
Resilience
45% of cyber leaders are concerned about disruption of operations and business processes.
1/1/2025•
Business disruption
15% of respondents in Europe and North America lack confidence in their country’s ability to respond to major cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure.
1/1/2025•
ResilienceEuropeNorth America
More than 76% of chief information security officers (CISOs) at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity in 2024 reported that fragmentation of regulations across jurisdictions greatly affects their organisations’ ability to maintain compliance.
1/1/2025•
ComplianceRegulationsCISOs
38% of public-sector organisations report insufficient resilience, compared to 10% of medium-to-large private-sector organisations.
1/1/2025•
ResiliencePublic sectorPrivate sector
Two out of three organisations report moderate-to-critical skills gaps.
1/1/2025•
TalentSkills gapStaff
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