We've curated 8 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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38% of successful Canadian software buyers evaluated a vendor's reputation for incident response before purchase.
8% of the security staff budget for Fortune 500 organizations with 50+ security FTEs is allocated to Incident response.
Investigating and responding to security alerts and incidents consumes 26.6% of Managed Service Provider (MSP) technician time.
20% of executives at financial services firms acknowledge that having no effective incident response plan is a significant weakness that could slow recovery.
24% of executives at financial services firms acknowledge that their teams not being trained on incident response processes is a significant weakness that could slow recovery.
14% of MSSP-supported financial services firms report mature response capabilities.
8% of internal financial services firms report mature response capabilities.
46% of companies place a higher priority on incident response.
Three of the top seven elements involved in incident response involve some sort of purchase.
8% of organizations conduct incident response analysis to assess the effectiveness of their API security measures.
57% of Organizations are using observability solutions for managing security incident response.
61% of UK organisations have created defined runbooks, roles, and processes for incident responses, which is ahead of the global average of 41%.
92% of respondents believe that unified cloud runtime security solutions would enhance incident response efficiency and contextualise alerts.
Nearly 1 in 5 of healthcare organizations lack a current or effective incident response plan.
24% of CISOs are leveraging Ai to build enhanced incident response capabilities.
Automotive leaders suggest that dynamic and adaptive defense mechanisms, and incident response and management, are the areas where AI will have a big impact, with 28% citing each.
51% of respondents confirmed experiencing a security incident that demanded a dedicated response from security teams in the past 12 months.
33% of financial organisations increasingly use AI for automated incident response.
Incident response was the second security function where AI will provide the most value in the next 3 years, cited by 59% of respondents
Speed of incident response was used to evaluate AI efficacy by 51% of respondents