74 percent of firms across Europe and North America with 1000 employees or more, have been targeted by cyber attacks in the past 12 months. According to the results of the survey, firms experiencing attacks in the past 12 months increased from 2018 to 2019 across all categories, with the exception of fims employing between 250 and 999 people.
Share of European and North American firms targeted by cyber attacks in a 12 month period, by size
Professionals involved with cyber security strategy
Supplementary notes
In total 5,392 professionals involved with their organization’s cyber security strategy were contacted (1,000 plus each from the UK, USA and Germany, and 500 each from Belgium, France, Spain and The Netherlands).
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