We've curated 4 cybersecurity statistics about Backup to help you understand how essential data recovery practices are evolving in 2025, ensuring that your critical information remains safe against potential data loss and ransomware attacks.
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62% of retailers who experienced attacks restored their data using backups in 2025, the lowest rate in four years
Nearly 29% of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have experienced a preventable client data loss event that could have been avoided with a dedicated backup solution.
Just 17% of organizations have recovery requirements for all business systems and applications needed for mission-critical services fully defined and documented.
Only 4% of organizations said they can ensure a clean, restorable copy of data for more than 90% of their mission-critical applications.
28% of executives at financial services firms acknowledge that a lack of current backups or recovery capabilities is a significant weakness that could slow recovery.
36% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in backup and disaster recovery solutions in 2026.
48.54% of IT decision-makers at financial services firms reported that data backup and disaster recovery is currently fully or partially managed by an MSP or MSSP.
67% of US-based IT and security professionals believe faster, higher-performing backup solutions that minimize downtime would significantly boost productivity and confidence in responding to cyberattacks.
In 2023, 88.9% of backups were not affected by ransomware.
Before 2023, 62.8% of backups were affected by ransomware.
In 2023, only 11.1% of backups were affected by ransomware.
Before 2023, 37.2% of backups were not affected by ransomware.
49% of senior IT decision-makers have experienced a major data loss event in the past year.
37% of senior IT decision-makers still rely solely on their SaaS application’s native backup capabilities.
11% of senior IT decision-makers state it would take a month or more to recover data after a loss incident, or that they might not be able to fully recover at all.
62% of senior IT decision-makers identify physically segregated storage as a top requirement for modern backup.
61% of senior IT decision-makers highlight physically segregated storage as a key requirement for modern SaaS backup.
59% of senior IT decision-makers identify immutable, encrypted storage as a top requirement for modern backup
57% of UK organisations recovered from backups when hit by ransomware.
72% of UK organisations have air-gapped backups.