This is the ultimate guide to the cost of IT security. Select the details that match your company to see the average budgets your industry peers spend on IT security (by region, industry, size), what security measures they take, the major threat vectors they encounter, how much money they lose as a result, and what you can do to avoid being compromised. The Calculator has been created as an adjustable tool. The data presented can be updated and/or added to over time based on insights from customers and Kaspersky.
IT security budget in 2020
Data provided by 1 006 respondents*
All regions, All industries, 4 999 employees
IT Security budget makes up 27% of the total IT spend
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average
$ 7 830 664
average
$ 7 830 664
max
$ 101 250 000
2020
2023
Expected change to IT security budget in three years
+ 11 %
year
2020
2023
YoY Dynamics
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Threats experienced in the last 12 months
Data provided by 1 109 respondents*
All regions, All industries, 4 999 employees
45%
Data breach
43%
Viruses & malware
42%
Inappropriate IT resource use by employees
41%
IT Security policies violation by employees
40%
Malware infection of BYOD devices
37%
Physical loss of company owned mobile devices exposing the organization to risk
37%
Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts
36%
Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices
36%
Physical loss of devices or media
35%
Targeted attacks
34%
DDoS attacks
33%
Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with
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*These statistics are based on results from an online survey of 5,266 business representatives from companies with 50 and up to 4,999 employees around the world, conducted in 2020 by Kaspersky and B2B International. Statistics based on less than 30 respondents should be used with caution, due to this being a low base. The significant increase in the IT security budget in 2020 may be caused by the change of the survey sample for several verticals and significant fluctuations in budgets in these verticals.
** The methodology for measuring endpoint protection has been changed: now it represents the penetration of endpoint protection in businesses meaning the proportion of corporate endpoints (both physical devices and virtual endpoints) that have endpoint security software installed in the average organization of this vertical and segment.
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