Email was the preferred entry vector for cybercriminals, driving 43% of claims.

61% of Canadian organisations report that their public cloud environments have been the most impacted by cyberattacks.

In the past 12 months, 87% of Canadian organisations have reported experiencing a security incident.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of IT decision-makers globally express concern about nation-state actors using AI to develop more sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks.

Canadian organisations experience an average downtime of 14 days due to increasingly effective cyberattacks.

There has been a 10% year-over-year increase in the length of downtime per security incident on Canadian organizations.

More than a quarter (28%) of UK SMEs suffered between one and five attempted attacks.

6% of UK SMEs were targeted up to 10 times in a year.

49% of financial institutions experienced a vendor-related cyber incident in the past year.

Of the financial institutions who experienced a vendor-related cyber incident, 66% had recovery times under 60 days .

28% of UK SMEs say that a single attack could put them out of business .

Of the financial institutions who experienced a vendor-related cyber incident, 8% had recovery times more than 90 days .

The average cost of a cyber-attack for UK businesses with 50 or more employees was £5,0011.

The average cost of a cyber-attack for a small UK business was £3,3981.

More than a third (35%) of UK SMEs experienced a cyber incident in 2024 alone.

54% of utility operators who were targeted by cyberattacks suffered permanent corruption or destruction of data and systems.

Of those utility operators targeted by cyberattacks in the past year, 80% were attacked multiple times.

98% of organizations experienced at least one cyber-attack last year.

Nearly 60% of attacks against utility operators were carried out by nation-state groups

62% of utility operators were targeted by cyberattacks in the past year.