Incident Response
We've curated 83 cybersecurity statistics about Incident response to help you understand how organizations are detecting, managing, and recovering from security breaches and cyber threats in 2025.
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Utilities resolve 30% of critical exposures within one hour.
87% of developers and technology buyers are confident their team could determine within 24 hours whether AI-generated code contributed to a production incident.
Security teams require mid-to-high levels of manual intervention for response, at 47%.
The meantime to resolve (MTTR) for AI/LLM security issues is 36 days, up from 19 days in 2025.
34% of organizations that experienced a production incident in the past year cannot determine whether AI-generated code contributed to it.
39% of senior security and IT leaders at U.S. enterprises with 500+ employees report narrowly avoiding an identity-related security incident but requiring significant unplanned remediation resources to contain it.
93% of organizations acknowledge a recent breach tied to their own applications.
Only 23.5% of organizations can respond at the speed attackers move.
Nearly 63% of organizations require between one and three days to remediate identified risks.
43% of senior security and IT leaders at U.S. enterprises with 500+ employees say they can assess the full blast radius of a compromised, high-privilege account within minutes.
96% of enterprises have no automated way to stop a hijacked AI agent.
84% of enterprises experienced material digital risk incidents in the past year.
47% of organizations say they would not respond to a serious security incident as quickly as they should.
Only 38% of technology executives consistently identify the root cause of a downtime incident.
59% of organizations agree they must take physical possession of an endpoint to remediate and restore the device after an incident.
14% of breached organizations cannot detect and stop their most significant identity attack before damage is done.
No CISOs report the ability to recover from ransomware within a day.
39% of middle market organizations prioritize detection and response in cybersecurity investment.
Organizations spend a median of $24.5 million annually on AI tools that prevent and respond to downtime.
Organizations spent more than $1 million on average in the past year responding to AI agent identity and security issues.