IT Security Calculator: North America, 100 - 249 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 84 respondents*

North America, All industries, 100 employees

IT Security budget makes up 21% of the total IT spend

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average

$ 229 625

average

$ 229 625

max

$ 1 203 125

2019

2022

Expected change to IT security budget in three years

+ 9 %

year

2019

2022

YoY Dynamics

Threats experienced in the last 12 months

Data provided by 94 respondents*

North America, All industries, 100 employees

57%

Viruses & malware

52%

Data breach

48%

Physical loss of devices or media

43%

Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with

41%

Inappropriate IT resource use by employees

39%

Incidents involving non-computing connected devices

39%

DDoS attacks

38%

Cryptomining attacks

37%

Electronic leakage of data from internal systems

37%

Cryptomalware/ransomware

36%

Incidents affecting third party cloud services used by the business

36%

Incidents affecting virtualized environments

35%

Targeted attacks

34%

Incidents affecting IT Infrastructure hosted by a third party

34%

Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices

Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts

Attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems

Financial losses due to attacks on ATM

Attacks on core transactional / back office systems

Attacks on online banking services

77%

Any cyberthreat

$ 86 656

Average cost of one incident

Security measures in place

Data provided by 94 respondents*

North America, All industries, 100 employees

77%

Endpoint security

35%

Security solutions for SaaS

29%

Threat monitoring, detection and response solutions

28%

Security solutions for IaaS and cloud

27%

Incident response services

24%

Vulnerability Assessment

22%

Threat intelligence security services

21%

Security education & training services

21%

Cloud access security broker

14%

SIEM

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.