Global organizations influenced by cyber incidents 2021

As of 2021, 39 percent of leading organizations worldwide reported having been influenced by an third-party cyber incident in the past two years. However, 55 percent of responding organizations have not been affected by such incidents. Another six percent of respondents didn't know if any cyber incident happened in their organization in the past two years.

Share of organizations worldwide affected by a third-party cyber incidents in the past two years as of 2021

Characteristic	Share of organizations
Have not been affected	55%
Have been affected	39%
Do not know	6%

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Release date

January 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

Number of respondents

79 respondents

Special properties

global cyber leaders

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Cyber leaders are senior-most executives from private and public sectors representing 20 countries.
Cyber Outlook Survey
The survey was anonymous and non-attributable to the respondent or their respective organizations. There were a total of 79 responses from 20 countries and 14 industries."

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