According to a survey conducted among IT security professionals worldwide, 64 percent claimed that it was very important when enabling remote work to protect users against various forms of cyber attacks, while 20 percent saw this as being of critical importance. This need became even more prevalent following the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdowns in 2020.
When enabling remote work, how important do you think it is to protect your users against phishing and cyber attacks?
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Statistics on Phishing
Overview
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- Basic Statistic Number of global phishing sites as of Q1 2021
- Basic Statistic Phishing: number of affected brands as of March 2021
- Premium Statistic Phishing: distribution of attacks 2021, by country
- Premium Statistic Phishing attack rate among businesses worldwide 2021, by country
- Basic Statistic Phishing: most targeted industry sectors 2022
- Premium Statistic Phishing: most targeted organization types 2021
- Basic Statistic Global spam categories 2020
Click rates and reporting
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- Premium Statistic Employee interaction with malicious emails 2021
- Premium Statistic Why employees click on phishing emails in 2020
- Premium Statistic Employees that click on phishing emails in 2020, by age
- Premium Statistic U.S. and UK employees that have made security mistakes in 2021, by age
- Premium Statistic Time taken to report a suspected phishing emails in 2020
Phishing types and delivery methods
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Spear-phishing
3
The COVID-19 pandemic and remote work
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- Premium Statistic Changes in cyber attack frequency following COVID-19 as of 2021
- Premium Statistic Key cyberthreats related to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
- Premium Statistic Increases in cyber attacks according to IT professionals in 2021, by type
- Basic Statistic Post-pandemic cybersecurity priorities worldwide 2020
- Premium Statistic Remote work: importance of protecting users against phishing and cyber attacks 2021
- Premium Statistic Global cybersecurity incidents after remote work transition 2020
- Premium Statistic IT leaders' predictions for phishing emails relating to 'back to work' in 2021
Spotlight: Phishing in the U.S.
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- Basic Statistic Most commonly reported types of cyber crime worldwide 2021
- Premium Statistic Cyber crime: attacks experienced by U.S. companies 2021
- Premium Statistic Online security threats that U.S. consumers worry about in 2021
- Premium Statistic U.S. government: number of cyber security incidents 2020, by attack vector
- Basic Statistic U.S. government: number of department cyber security incidents 2019, by attack vector
- Basic Statistic Threat actors for cyber security incidents in U.S. healthcare organizations 2019-2020
Further related statistics
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- Percentage of healthcare cyber attacks identified by security teams 2017-2018
- Time needed to restore ICT systems after cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Solutions envisioned to ensure their cyber-security of companies
- Main actions taken by firms after cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Distribution of recipients of company reports about cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Main reasons for not reporting cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Impact of cyber security incidents in Singapore 2016
- Number of cyber attacks in Vietnam 2018, by type
- UK businesses: usage of cyber security governance and risk management 2015, by type
- Global IT vulnerability management market 2010-2018
- Effect of security threat on IT spending strategy in organizations worldwide 2019
- healthcare cyber attacks outside of security teams detected 2018
- UK companies: share of information used to evaluate security threats 2014-2015
- UK companies: main drivers for information security expenditure 2015
- Energy consumption of Crédit Agricole S.A. Group worldwide 2016-2019, by scope
- Lotte Chemical's operating profit 2021, by business segment
- COVID-19: percentage change in visitors to leading global art museums 2020-2021
- Global uses of the earth's surface 2019
- Arvato's annual revenue 2005-2021
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Statistics
- Percentage of healthcare cyber attacks identified by security teams 2017-2018
- Time needed to restore ICT systems after cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Solutions envisioned to ensure their cyber-security of companies
- Main actions taken by firms after cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Distribution of recipients of company reports about cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Main reasons for not reporting cyberattacks in Italy 2018
- Impact of cyber security incidents in Singapore 2016
- Number of cyber attacks in Vietnam 2018, by type
- UK businesses: usage of cyber security governance and risk management 2015, by type
- Global IT vulnerability management market 2010-2018
- Effect of security threat on IT spending strategy in organizations worldwide 2019
- healthcare cyber attacks outside of security teams detected 2018
- UK companies: share of information used to evaluate security threats 2014-2015
- UK companies: main drivers for information security expenditure 2015
- Energy consumption of Crédit Agricole S.A. Group worldwide 2016-2019, by scope
- Lotte Chemical's operating profit 2021, by business segment
- COVID-19: percentage change in visitors to leading global art museums 2020-2021
- Global uses of the earth's surface 2019
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Check Point Software Technologies. (July 8, 2021). When enabling remote work, how important do you think it is to protect your users against phishing and cyber attacks? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 27, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258263/remote-work-protection-against-cyber-attacks/
Check Point Software Technologies. "When enabling remote work, how important do you think it is to protect your users against phishing and cyber attacks? ." Chart. July 8, 2021. Statista. Accessed January 27, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258263/remote-work-protection-against-cyber-attacks/
Check Point Software Technologies. (2021). When enabling remote work, how important do you think it is to protect your users against phishing and cyber attacks? . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 27, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258263/remote-work-protection-against-cyber-attacks/
Check Point Software Technologies. "When Enabling Remote Work, How Important Do You Think It Is to Protect Your Users against Phishing and Cyber Attacks? ." Statista, Statista Inc., 8 Jul 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258263/remote-work-protection-against-cyber-attacks/
Check Point Software Technologies, When enabling remote work, how important do you think it is to protect your users against phishing and cyber attacks? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258263/remote-work-protection-against-cyber-attacks/ (last visited January 27, 2023)
When enabling remote work, how important do you think it is to protect your users against phishing and cyber attacks? [Graph], Check Point Software Technologies, July 8, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1258263/remote-work-protection-against-cyber-attacks/