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 2021
Data provided by 51 respondents*
China, Industrial/Manufacturing, 999 employees
IT Security budget makes up 30% of the total IT spend
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average
$ 581 636
average
$ 581 636
max
$ 2 187 500
2021
2024
Expected change to IT security budget in three years
+ 14 %
year
2021
2024
YoY Dynamics
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Threats experienced in the last 12 months
Data provided by 52 respondents*
China, Industrial/Manufacturing, 999 employees
56%
Data breach
38%
IT Security policies violation by employees
38%
Inappropriate IT resource use by employees
35%
Physical loss of devices or media
33%
Viruses & malware
31%
Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices
31%
Supply chain attacks
31%
Electronic leakage of data from internal systems
31%
Cryptomalware/ransomware
29%
Physical loss of BYOD devices
27%
Targeted attacks
27%
Attacks on local / branch offices of our company
25%
Incidents affecting virtualized environments
25%
Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts
25%
Fileless attacks
25%
DDoS attacks
25%
Physical loss of company owned mobile devices exposing the organization to risk
Ransomware, data leaks, phishing and insider threats are the top threats industrial and manufacturing organizations face. Endpoint security, DLP, access control, network segmentation and security solutions would help them alleviate these threats. In addition, with increasingly connected manufacturing networks, industrial network security is becoming a concern, and network segmentation and whitelisting technologies are often adopted.
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*These statistics are based on results from an online survey of 3,063 business representatives from companies with 50 and up to 4,999 employees around the world, conducted in 2021 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 methodology for measuring endpoint protection 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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