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.

50% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in advanced threat detection and response, such as MDR, EDR, SOC, in 2026.

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.

48.54% of IT decision-makers at financial services firms reported that threat detection and security response (MDR, SOC) is currently fully or partially managed by an MSP or MSSP.

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.

On average, organizations take just over 2 weeks to respond to and contain a security alert from initial detection to resolution.

Critical industries globally, such as government and transportation, face an average response time of upwards of 3 weeks to security alerts.

In the United States, organizations experience an average response time of 2.8 weeks to security alerts.

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.

Data breach response / crisis management was triggered as the main driver of loss in 24.5% of claims (primary 23.6%, excess 26.7%), triggered with some loss impact in 27.5%, triggered with no loss impact known in 3.6%, and not triggered in 44.4%.

Data breach response / crisis management coverage was triggered in 24.5% of all claims overall, with a slightly higher incidence in excess claims (26.7%) compared to primary claims (23.6%).

Only 31% of security leaders use AI-powered SOC tools across core detection and response workflows.

61% of UK organisations have created defined runbooks, roles, and processes for incident responses, which is ahead of the global average of 41%.