Budget
We've curated 167 cybersecurity statistics about Budget to help you understand how organizations are allocating resources to combat cyber threats and what strategies are proving effective in maximizing their security investments in 2025.
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Software accounts for roughly 30% of security budgets, making it the second-largest line item after staff and compensation.
SecOps solutions represent the largest share of software budgets at 16%.
65% of organisations plan to increase cybersecurity budgets.
78% of all organizations intend to increase their genAI spend.
41% of IT and security decision-makers say budget or resource cuts have led to reduced capacity for detection and monitoring.
48% of IT and security decision-makers say budget or resource cuts have led to team restructuring.
52% of IT and security decision-makers say budget or resource cuts have led to increased workloads without added support.
85% of security teams have experienced budget or resource-related changes in the past six months.
Only 11% of CISOs report being adequately staffed. The remaining 89% describe their teams as stretched thin or understaffed
Security budget as a percentage of IT spend declined from 11.9% to 10.9%. This decline breaks a five-year upward trend.
More than half of CISOs are reporting flat or shrinking budgets.
Average security budget growth has slowed to just 4% year over year. This is the lowest rate in five years, a significant decline from 8% in 2024.
Cybersecurity staffing growth slowed to 7%, which is its lowest level in four years.
Just 1% of organizations invest more than 20% of their total security budget into AppSec.
50% of rural healthcare organisations say budget limitations are a top barrier to upgrading security tools, which is nearly double the rate of urban peers.
20% of financial services organizations have yet to secure the necessary budget to meet DORA requirements.
4 in 10 executives (which is 40%) at hotels say that 16-25% of their total IT budget is devoted to cybersecurity.
At least four in 10 business leaders are increasing budgets, expanding teams, upskilling, and/or hiring external help for cybersecurity challenges and data privacy concerns
85% of CISOs say their organization's cybersecurity budget is influenced by the volume of nation-state threats.
56% of healthcare IT leaders spend less than 10% of their security budget on email.