U.S. companies and cyber crime - Statistics & Facts
According to the IC3, the monetary damage caused by reported cyber crime in 2016 amounted to more than 1.33 billion U.S. dollars. That year, the U.S. state with the highest amount of losses was California with over 255 million U.S. dollars in reported cyber crime damages. The average cost of a company-directed cyber crime attack in the United States was 17.36 million U.S. dollars.
Based on the type of attack, industry figures estimate the number of days necessary to solve a cyber attack on a company can take up to 69 days. The most common types of cyber attacks experienced by U.S. companies were viruses and malware. According to a 2015 survey of U.S. companies, the most popular cyber securities deployed were advanced perimeter controls and firewall technologies as well as the extensive usage of encryption technologies. Other data loss prevention activities include training and awareness programs, as well as expanded encryption and endpoint security solutions.
Despite these efforts to protect the company from outside cyber attacks, there are many employee activities that render a company vulnerable, such as mobile device usage or remote work access. Other obstacles to implementing more robust cyber security solutions for businesses are the lack of funds as well as the lack of clarity regarding best practice. However, the average organizational cost to a business in the United States after a data breach in 2016 was 7 million U.S. dollars, causing more and more businesses to create an incident response plan to deal with cyber attacks.
U.S. companies and cyber crime - Important statistics
- 1. Attacks
+Cyber espionage: most-targeted industries 2016- Phishing: number of affected brands as of December 2016
- +Online security: global incidents 2009-2015
- +Cyber crime: distribution of breaches 2014-2017, by sector
- +Cyber crime: distribution of data exposed 2014-2016, by sector
- Cyber crime: attacks experienced by U.S. companies 2015
- Leading source countries of web application attack traffic 2017
- +Number of global phishing sites as of 2nd quarter 2016
- Most serious endpoint security incidents in the U.S. 2016
- 2. Damages and consequences
- +Organizational impact of data breaches on U.S. companies 2017
- Cyber crime: number of breaches and records exposed 2005-2016
- +Cyber crime: distribution of data exposed 2014-2016, by sector
- Cyber crime damages caused to U.S. companies though malware 2015, by size
- Cyber crime damages caused to U.S. companies though malicious code 2015, by size
- Cyber crime damages caused to U.S. companies though web-based attacks 2015, by size
- Cyber crime damages of U.S. companies affected by phishing 2015, by size
- Financial damage caused by cyber attacks in the U.S. in 2014-2015
- Distribution of internal costs of U.S. companies due to cyber crime 2015
- Distribution of external costs of U.S. companies due to cyber crime 2015
- Cyber crime: average company loss in selected countries 2016
- Average U.S. organization data breach cost 2006-2017
- 3. Cyber security
- IT security of small businesses in the U.S. 2017
- Enterprise security governance activities deployed against cyber crime 2015
- Distribution of U.S. company security IT budget 2013-2015, by layer
- +Small-to-medium business (SMB) IT security threat defense 2014-2016
- Largest U.S. organization endpoint security risks 2016
- +U.S. organizational cyber crime response team availability 2015
- +U.S. organizational cyber crime response readiness 2015
- U.S. company data loss prevention methods 2017
- U.S. SME perceptions about ransomware in 2016
- U.S. SME perception of ransomware attack vulnerability 2016
- 4. Cyber insurance
- +Awareness of cyber insurance existence among U.S. SMBs 2015
- +Interest of SMBs in purchase of cyber insurance in the U.S. 2015
- Cyber security insurance among small U.S. businesses 2015
- +Important factors considered by U.S. SMBs prior to cyber insurance purchase 2015
- +Security measures taken by U.S. SMBs to reduce cyber attack risk 2015
- +Plans to buy or increase level of cyber insurance coverage in the U.S. 2016
- +Reasons for lack of suitable cyber insurance for U.S. companies 2016
- +Number of cyber insurance claims made in North America 2016, by cause of loss
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