As of December 2022, over half of the organizations with 500 to 999 employees worldwide that encountered email-based cyber attacks experienced downtime and business disruption. Among companies with 250 to 499 employees, 51 percent lost sensitive, confidential, or business-critical data. The latter also experienced repercussions like brand and company reputation damage.
Impact of successful e-mail-based attacks in organizations worldwide as of December 2022, by organization size
IT managers and technical IT professionals, senior IT security managers, and senior IT and IT security decisionmakers
Supplementary notes
The original question was phrased by the source as follows: "What was the impact of these successful email security attacks on your organization?"
Survey participants were from the U.S., Australia, India, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
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