Main reasons for not reporting cyberattacks in Italy 2018

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 9, 2024
The results of a survey conducted in the first semester of 2018 in Italy showed that approximately 77 percent of the Italian companies did not report cyberattacks because they were insignificant.

Main reasons for not reporting cyberattacks in Italy in 2018

CharacteristicShare of respondents
Insignificant cyberattack 77.42%
Company/Entity policy 9.68%
Did not want to share information about security vulnerabilities of the company 6.45%
Safeguarding company's image 3.23%
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Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Share of respondents77.42%77.42%9.68%9.68%6.45%6.45%3.23%3.23%Insignificant cyberattackCompany/Entity policyDid not want to share information about securityvulnerabilities of the companySafeguarding company's image
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July 2019

Region

Italy

Survey time period

first semester 2018

Number of respondents

269 respondents

Special properties

companies

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Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: responding companies are divided as follows 43.7 % are companies with up to 49 employees, 22.6% are companies with 50 to 250 employees and 33.6 % are companies with over 250 employees equally divided in three branches, 251-1000, 1001-5000, over 5001.
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