IT Security Calculator: North America, 250 - 999 employees

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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 2019

Data provided by 126 respondents*

North America, All industries, 250 employees

IT Security budget makes up 23% of the total IT spend

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average

$ 342 024

average

$ 342 024

max

$ 1 718 750

2019

2022

Expected change to IT security budget in three years

+ 10 %

year

2019

2022

YoY Dynamics

Threats experienced in the last 12 months

Data provided by 142 respondents*

North America, All industries, 250 employees

61%

Physical loss of devices or media

61%

Viruses & malware

56%

Inappropriate IT resource use by employees

51%

Data breach

43%

Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices

42%

Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with

41%

Targeted attacks

40%

Incidents affecting virtualized environments

39%

Incidents involving non-computing connected devices

37%

Incidents affecting IT Infrastructure hosted by a third party

36%

DDoS attacks

36%

Cryptomalware/ransomware

35%

Incidents affecting third party cloud services used by the business

35%

Electronic leakage of data from internal systems

34%

Cryptomining attacks

Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts

Attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems

Attacks on online banking services

Financial losses due to attacks on ATM

Attacks on core transactional / back office systems

82%

Any cyberthreat

$ 126 017

Average cost of one incident

Security measures in place

Data provided by 142 respondents*

North America, All industries, 250 employees

87%

Endpoint security

47%

Threat monitoring, detection and response solutions

40%

Security education & training services

39%

Vulnerability Assessment

38%

Security solutions for IaaS and cloud

36%

Security solutions for SaaS

35%

Incident response services

27%

Threat intelligence security services

27%

Cloud access security broker

20%

SIEM

18%

Industrial Cyber Security

Fraud Prevention

Embedded Systems Security

Recommendations

There is an alarming tendency of growing amount of targeted attacks affecting North American businesses.

To counter this growing threat, you are encouraged to put up stronger anti-targeted attacks capabilities and better train your security professionals.

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*These statistics are based on results from an online survey of 4,474 business representatives from companies with up to 4,999 employees around the world, conducted in 2019 by Kaspersky and B2B International. Statistics based on less than 30 respondents should be used with caution, due to this being a low base.