In March and April 2021, there were on average 241 attempts of cyber attacks on enterprise-sized companies worldwide. Additional 29 attempts of cyber attacks were successful. This is an increase of over 30 percent compared to the previous year, as the average number of cyber attacks on global companies in 2020 was 206, 22 of which were successful and caused some kind of harm. Attacks include unauthorized access of data, applications, services, networks or devices.
Average number of cyber attacks on enterprise-sized companies worldwide from 2020 to 2021
executives of organizations with annual revenues of 1bn U.S. dollars or more
Supplementary notes
The executives represent organizations with annual revenues of US$1B or more from 18 countries and 23 industries across North and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. n=4,244 Security respondents; n=500 non-Security respondents. The surveys included 4,744 respondents in 2021 and 4,644 respondents in 2020 The 2021 survey was carried out in March and April 2021.
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