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On average, only 5% of companies’ folders are properly protected.

The top malicious email attachment types are .doc and .dot which make up 37%, the next highest is .exe at 19.5%.

86% of breaches were financially motivated and 10% were motivated by espionage.

Data breaches and security attacks are massively on the rise. In the first six months of 2019 alone, data breaches exposed at least 4.1 billion records, according to a RiskBased Security report.

The global information security market has been forecast to be worth $170.4 billion by 2022, according to Gartner research. Despite that huge spending, only 5% of organizations securely protect their data folders, according to Varonis research.

Approximately $6 trillion is expected to be spent globally on cybersecurity by 2021

Organizations need to make a fundamental change in their approach to cybersecurity and reprioritize budgets to align with this newly defined reality of our modern society.

Since COVID-19, the US FBI reported a 300% increase in reported cybercrimes.
As if a pandemic wasn’t scary enough, hackers leveraged the opportunity to attack vulnerable networks as office work moved to personal homes. As of this summer, they recorded 12,377 Covid-related scams.

Financial organizations are the biggest targets of cyber attacks.

Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Report breaks down the hacks by percentage: Last year, 24% of breaches targeted the finance industry, 15% were aimed at healthcare, 15% were retail, and only 12% of breaches occurred in the public sector.