Unusual Statistics

Key Takeaways

1. 12.1% of measured passwords were known to be reused across multiple breach incidents in 2024
2. 24.2% of organizations took more than 30 days to remediate high-severity vulnerabilities (2024)
3. 392% of organizations said they use automated patching for at least some systems (2024)
4. 438% of organizations reported their cloud security posture is 'not mature' (2024)
5. 547% of organizations reported using threat intelligence feeds (2024)
6. 68.0% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions came from buildings in 2022
7. 7$32.4 billion was the global spending on cybersecurity services in 2024
8. 8$8.5 billion was the worldwide market for deception technology in 2023
9. 9$18.8 billion global market value for incident response services in 2023
10. 1018% of employees used generative AI tools at work weekly in 2024
11. 1139% of enterprises reported using security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) (2024)
12. 1243% of organizations reported that attackers target internet-facing applications first (2023)
13. 1326% of organizations reported they had experienced at least one supply-chain attack in the past year (2024)
14. 14$9.9 billion global spend on IT services was attributed to generative AI in 2023
15. 152.3% of global GDP was lost to electricity theft and system losses in 2020

Breaches keep scaling while defenses lag: 2.1% reused passwords, 72% involve web apps, and 61% of small businesses get attacked.