Average number of global cyber attacks per company 2021

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

Characteristic	Attempted	Successful
2021	241	29
2020	184	22

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Release date

November 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020 to 2021

Number of respondents

4,744 respondents

Special properties

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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