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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 2021

Data provided by 52 respondents*
North America, All industries, 100 employees
IT Security budget makes up 20% of the total IT spend
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average
$ 174 721
average
$ 174 721
max
$ 1 031 250
2021
2024
Expected change to IT security budget in three years
+ 9 %
year
2021
2024
YoY Dynamics
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Threats experienced in the last 12 months

Data provided by 59 respondents*
North America, All industries, 100 employees
45%
Inappropriate IT resource use by employees
43%
IT Security policies violation by employees
42%
Data breach
39%
Fileless attacks
39%
Viruses & malware
37%
Cryptomining attacks
37%
Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts
36%
Physical loss of company owned mobile devices exposing the organization to risk
35%
Physical loss of BYOD devices
35%
Malware infection of BYOD devices
34%
Electronic leakage of data from internal systems
32%
Attacks on local / branch offices of our company
32%
Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices
31%
Incidents involving non-computing connected devices
31%
Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with
31%
Targeted attacks
31%
Cryptomalware/ransomware
30%
Physical loss of devices or media
27%
Supply chain attacks
26%
DDoS attacks
18%
Incidents affecting IT Infrastructure hosted by a third party
18%
Incidents affecting third party cloud services used by the business
17%
Incidents affecting virtualized environments
8%
Attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems
6%
Attacks on online banking services
5%
Financial losses due to attacks on ATM
5%
Attacks on core transactional / back office systems
79%
Any cyberthreat
$ 86 158
Average cost of one incident

Security measures in place

Data provided by 28 respondents*
North America, All industries, 100 employees
64%
Endpoint Protection**
84%
Network Securitу
77%
Endpoint detection & response (EDR)
77%
Web Security
77%
Security solutions specifically designed for SaaS applications
77%
Fraud Prevention
75%
Mobile Security
74%
Services - Security Education & Training
74%
Messaging Security
70%
Security for Virtualization
69%
Services - Security Assessment
68%
Services - Managed Detection & Response
67%
Storage array / network attached storage security software
66%
Cloud Workload Security
63%
Services - Incident Response
63%
Container Security
62%
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Protection
61%
Services - Threat intelligence
61%
Anti-DDoS Protection
56%
IoT - Transportation Security
53%
Network Sandboxing
53%
Industrial Cybersecurity
48%
SIEM
42%
SOAR
12%
Services - Industrial Cybersecurity Assessment
10%
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 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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