In the last 16 months, nearly 70% of Europe's ransomware activity was concentrated in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain.

Manufacturing was the most-affected sector at 27.9% of ransomware victims.

Germany reported 370 ransomware incidents (17.9%), the United Kingdom reported 347 (16.8%), France repored 255 (12.3%), Italy reported 240 (11.6%), and Spain reported 203 (9.8%) among ransomware incidents across Europe.

Within professional, scientific, and technical services, IT service providers were the single most-targeted subindustry by ransomware.

Cyber is the leading cause of both IT downtime and data loss for the fourth consecutive year.

30% of organisations cite cyber incidents as their biggest cause of IT downtime over the last 12 months, ahead of hardware failure at 19%.

43% of large organisations reported losing data as a result of a cyber attack.

39% of organisations cite integrating IT and business resilience as their leading resilience priority, just ahead of updating continuity plans (38%) and improving backup processes (38%).

Only 18% of organisations that suffered a ransomware attack paid the ransom, while 59% recovered from backups.

76% of organisations believe they are more resilient than they were 12 months ago.

85% of healthcare practices experienced at least one operational disruption caused by a third-party or vendor-of-a-vendor failure in the past 12 months.

63% of healthcare practices do not continuously monitor their digital supply chains.

31% of healthcare practices are still running on legacy systems that cannot contain a breach quickly once it starts.

52% of healthcare practices have no managed security service provider (MSSP).

39% of healthcare practices manage cybersecurity entirely in-house.

23% of healthcare practices describe their technology as antiquated.

42% of healthcare practices that partner with an MSSP report better access to managed threat detection and response.

35% of healthcare practices that partner with an MSSP report better access to next-generation firewalls.

63% of U.S. knowledge workers report having a clear AI policy that they understand.

63% of workers rate AI as either absolutely essential or very necessary to their jobs.