The staggering losses due to cybercrime are opening a lot of eyes in the corporate and economic world. Governments are spending more on cybersecurity education. Companies are hiring cybersecurity professionals in C-level roles. Phishing remains a major threat to companies. Here are a lot more such facts that will offer you many insights about the cybersecurity world.

Phishing facts:
- More than half of IT executives believe that phishing is a major threat to their business.
- 1 in every 3 phishing emails gets opened in the United States.
- More than 80% of cybersecurity incidents are due to phishing attacks.
- Every 60 seconds, $17,700 is lost due to phishing attacks.
- Almost two-third of phishing attempts involve spear phishing.
- More than 60,000 phishing sites were reported in just a month this year.
Data breach facts:
- Data breaches cost a company $3.92 million (including everything) on an average.
- 60% of data breaches happen because the victim was running outdated software, meaning that a security patch was available but not installed on the target device.
- Small businesses account for 43% of data breach victims. Human error accounts for 95% of data breaches.
- It takes more than 6 months (206 days on average last year) to identify a data breach.
- A data breach leads to a decline in the company’s share price by 7.27% on average.
Cybersecurity job facts:
- The unemployment rate among cybersecurity professionals is 0%.
- The average salary for an entry-level cybersecurity professional is $74,340 per annum in the United States.
- In India, the average salary of a professional trained in CHFI course is ₹21.4lakhs.
- 2 in every 5 IT leaders find cybersecurity as the most ‘difficult to fill’ job.
Other facts:
- Hackers attack every 39 seconds, i.e. there is an attack every 2,244 times a day on average.
- Emails account for 92-94% of malware delivery medium.
- Employees have access to 17% of all sensitive files.
- In 2019, every employee could access 17 million files and 1.21 million folders on average.
- More than half of the companies found that every employee of theirs had access to at least 1,000 sensitive files.
- Certified Ethical Hacker certification (CEH) is the most popular cybersecurity certificate courses currently. Malware can cost a company $2.6 million.
- On average, IoT (Internet of Things) devices suffer 5,200 cyber attacks every month.
- More than 50% of the companies are investing over 1 million USD per year on cybersecurity.