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 Lab.
IT security budget in 2018
Data provided by 1 602 respondents*
All regions, All industries, 4 999 employees
IT Security budget makes up 25% of the total IT spend
average
$ 6 215 196
average
$ 6 215 196
max
$ 82 500 000
2018
2021
Expected change to IT security budget in three years
Incidents affecting third party cloud services used by the business
38%
Incidents affecting virtualized environments
37%
Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with
37%
Incidents affecting IT Infrastructure hosted by a third party
32%
Cryptomalware/ransomware
8%
Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts
5%
Attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems
5%
Attacks on online banking services
5%
Financial losses due to attacks on ATM
5%
Attacks on core transactional / back office systems
77%
Any cyberthreat
$ 1 071 413
Average cost of one incident
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*These statistics are based on results from an online survey of 6,687 business representatives from companies with up to 4,999 employees around the world, conducted in 2018 by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. Statistics based on less than 30 respondents should be used with caution, due to this being a low base.
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