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The average duration business operations were affected by ransomware in professional services was 85 days.

Between 2019 and 2023, professional services experienced large losses primarily from ransomware (75.0%), followed by data breaches (14.3%) and other causes (10.7%).

58% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified managing remote user access and latency as a top networking and security challenge.

68% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified gaining network and security observability as their top strategic networking and security priority.

48% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified simplifying operations and reducing IT burden as their top strategic networking and security priority.

66% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified securing SaaS and public cloud apps as a top networking and security challenge.

46% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified managing too many vendors/support contracts as a top networking and security challenge.

44% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry are planning to adopt Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions in the next 12 months

54% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified operating with limited internal IT staff as a top networking and security challenge.

Only 38% of business services leaders view edge security as "mission-critical".

43% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified gaps in performance and threat visibility as a top networking and security challenge.

72% of senior IT and infrastructure leaders in the business and professional services industry identified improving application and SaaS performance as their top strategic networking and security priority.

Top 5 industries by cloud‑asset vulnerability: Professional Services: 25.0%, Retail: 23.3%, Government: 18.4%, Education: 17.6%, Media: 13.8%.

In one analysis, professional services had 28% of vulnerable assets across cloud, APIs, and web applications.

In one analysis, professional services had 28% of vulnerable assets across cloud, APIs, and web applications.

Business and professional services (11.1%) was the 2nd most targeted industry.

Professional services have 17.2% employee AI adoption.

The healthcare sector is the third-most targeted sector for ransomware attacks, following manufacturing and professional services.