IT managers and technical IT professionals, senior IT security managers, and senior IT and IT security decisionmakers
Supplementary notes
The original question was phrased by the source as follows: "What was the impact of these successful email security attacks on your organization?"
Survey participants were from the U.S., Australia, India, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
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Global organizations impact from successful e-mail attacks 2022, by organization size
As of December 2022, over half of the organizations with *** to *** employees worldwide that encountered email-based cyber attacks experienced downtime and business disruption. Among companies with *** to *** employees, ** percent lost sensitive, confidential, or business-critical data. The latter also experienced repercussions like brand and company reputation damage.
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