Companies where data protection became a challenge by size 2022

A 2022 survey of Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) from various industries worldwide found that data protection has become an increased challenge in smaller companies. According to the study, companies with 5,001 employees and more handled data protection better than those with 200 to 500 employees. Therefore, 47 percent of the CISOs of larger companies saw data protection as an increased challenge, as opposed to 55 percent of respondents representing smaller enterprises.

Share of enterprises worldwide where data protection has become an increased challenge as of March 2022, by company size

Characteristic	Share of respondents
200-500 employees	55%
501-1000 employees	51%
1001-2500 employees	50%
2501-5000 employees	48%
>5001 employees	47%

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Release date

May 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

February 22 to March 8, 2022

Number of respondents

1,400 respondents

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Chief Information Security Officers (CISO)

Supplementary notes

According to the source, respondents represent organizations of 200 employees or more across different industries in 14 countries: U.S., Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Japan and Singapore. The survey involves 100 respondents from each country.

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