IT Security Calculator: North America, 1000 - 4999 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 138 respondents*

North America, All industries, 4 999 employees

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

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average

$ 12 441 350

average

$ 12 441 350

max

$ 125 000 000

2019

2022

Expected change to IT security budget in three years

+ 8 %

year

2019

2022

YoY Dynamics

Threats experienced in the last 12 months

Data provided by 150 respondents*

North America, All industries, 4 999 employees

59%

Viruses & malware

53%

Physical loss of devices or media

47%

Data breach

45%

Inappropriate IT resource use by employees

44%

Targeted attacks

44%

Incidents affecting third party cloud services used by the business

42%

DDoS attacks

42%

Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices

39%

Incidents affecting IT Infrastructure hosted by a third party

37%

Incidents involving non-computing connected devices

36%

Cryptomalware/ransomware

35%

Electronic leakage of data from internal systems

34%

Incidents affecting virtualized environments

32%

Cryptomining attacks

28%

Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with

11%

Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts

Financial losses due to attacks on ATM

Attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems

Attacks on core transactional / back office systems

Attacks on online banking services

77%

Any cyberthreat

$ 1 114 981

Average cost of one incident

Security measures in place

Data provided by 150 respondents*

North America, All industries, 4 999 employees

82%

Endpoint security

49%

Threat monitoring, detection and response solutions

45%

Security solutions for SaaS

39%

Incident response services

38%

Threat intelligence security services

36%

Security education & training services

35%

Vulnerability Assessment

34%

Security solutions for IaaS and cloud

31%

Industrial Cyber Security

27%

Cloud access security broker

25%

SIEM

10%

Fraud Prevention

Embedded Systems Security

Recommendations

North America is one of the most developed regions from an IT and telecommunications standpoint, which makes this area a high priority for attackers armed with the latest cyberthreats. So North American companies should be ready to be ‘early adopters,’ implementing all the latest IT security technologies e.g. anti-targeted attack systems, EDR, industrial security systems and threat intelligence, as soon as they become available. A cloud security strategy is critical, as so many business processes in this region are dependent on public cloud infrastructures (such as AWS and AZURE).

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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.