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 2020
Data provided by 99 respondents*
Russia, All industries, 999 employees
IT Security budget makes up 23% of the total IT spend
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average
$ 87 946
average
$ 87 946
max
$ 481 250
2020
2023
Expected change to IT security budget in three years
+ 11 %
year
2020
2023
YoY Dynamics
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Threats experienced in the last 12 months
Data provided by 132 respondents*
Russia, All industries, 999 employees
42%
IT Security policies violation by employees
39%
DDoS attacks
38%
Viruses & malware
37%
Inappropriate IT resource use by employees
36%
Malware infection of BYOD devices
32%
Data breach
32%
Physical loss of BYOD devices
31%
Physical loss of company owned mobile devices exposing the organization to risk
27%
Cryptomalware/ransomware
27%
Inappropriate sharing of data via mobile devices
26%
Physical loss of devices or media
24%
Electronic leakage of data from internal systems
23%
Attacks on local / branch offices of our company
21%
Phishing / social engineering attacks on accounts
20%
Cryptomining attacks
20%
Incidents affecting suppliers that the business shares data with
Russian companies report that the recklessness of their staff often results in electronic leaks of sensitive information.
The best way to address these shortfalls is to leverage a contract with professional cybersecurity services provider, which must include cyber awareness training.
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*These statistics are based on results from an online survey of 5,266 business representatives from companies with 50 and up to 4,999 employees around the world, conducted in 2020 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 significant increase in the IT security budget in 2020 may be caused by the change of the survey sample for several verticals and significant fluctuations in budgets in these verticals.
** The methodology for measuring endpoint protection has been changed: now it 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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