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Statistics help measure cyber risk, reveal attack patterns, and support evidence-based decisions about security controls and incident response.

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Statistics is the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. Descriptive statistics summarize observed events, while inferential methods estimate patterns or uncertainty beyond the available sample. Reliable results depend on representative data, consistent definitions, and awareness that correlation does not by itself establish cause.

In information security, statistics help establish normal activity from logs, identify anomalous behavior, measure detection false-positive rates, and estimate incident scope. Vulnerability teams can combine historical exploitation, asset exposure, and remediation data to prioritize work, but such estimates are not guarantees and can reflect biased or incomplete reporting. Statistical models also require monitoring as attacker behavior and environments change. Aggregated security statistics may still reveal sensitive information when groups are small, so privacy controls and careful disclosure matter in internal reporting, threat intelligence, and compliance evidence.

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If an endpoint goes ping but isn't on the network, does anyone hear it? Partner content Recently, I've been diving deep into security control data across dozens of organizations, and what I've found has been both fascinating and alarming. Most security teams I work with can rattle off their vulnerability management statistics with confidence. They know their scan schedules, their remediation timelines, and their critical vulnerability counts. They point to clean dashboards and comprehensive reports as proof that their programs are working.…

The Register 25 Jun 2025, 3:01 a.m. Critical Vulnerability Endpoint Security Statistics Vulnerability Vulnerability Management
The Register 3 years, 10 months ago

Ransomware protection from the top drawer

Why Zero Trust security needs secure infrastructure, systems, networks, users, and applications Webinar Statistics suggest that there was a ransomware attack on a company or organization every 11 seconds in 2021, but only 57 percent of the victims successfully retrieved their kidnapped data by using back up. And the 32 percent that paid a ransom only recovered 65 percent of their lost data.…

The Register 8 Sep 2022, 6:28 a.m. Ransomware Statistics Victims Webinar Zero Trust