Security is one of the biggest issues facing businesses and their customers, with advancing technology making attacks harder to defend against. We’ve outlined some the impacts this has and the industries that suffer most.
Fraud & Security By Business Size
Depending on how big your company is, you may be at a higher or lower risk of experiencing fraud. We’ve found the figures for small, medium and large businesses to see how the threat compares.
| Business Size | Percentage of premises experiencing fraud/crime |
|---|---|
| 1-9 employees | 10% |
| 10-49 employees | 19% |
| 50+ employees | 29% |
Security Breaches & Incidents By Sector
Cyberattacks come in many forms and some are more serious than others. An incident can be many things such as website defacement or impersonation, but a breach puts sensitive information at risk. We’ve compared the industries to find who falls victim to both types of attack.
| Sector | Incidents | Breaches |
|---|---|---|
| Public | 22,788 | 304 |
| Information | 1,040 | 109 |
| Healthcare | 750 | 536 |
| Financial | 598 | 146 |
| Professional Services | 540 | 132 |
| Property | 368 | 338 |
| Retail | 317 | 169 |
| Education | 292 | 101 |
Rate of Security Risks By Country
Fraudulent activity on the web will take place more often that not via email. These are the countries that have the highest rate of risk when it comes to phishing and malicious emails.
| Country | Spam Email Rate | Malicious Email Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 60.8% | 35.7% |
| Mexico | 58.1% | 29.7% |
| Saudi Arabia | 66.8% | 5.2% |
| Norway | 59.1% | 12.8% |
| Sweden | 58.3% | 12.4% |
| China | 62.2% | 4.9% |
| Sri Lanka | 60.6% | 4.1% |
| Colombia | 56.8% | 11.0% |
| U.S. | 57.5% | 8.9% |
| Oman | 58.6% | 3.6% |
Sources & Methodology
For the statistics relating to countries, we created an index from the spam and malicious email data in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. The industry data was taken from the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report in which we selected the industries with over 100 breaches.
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