Security News > 2024 > July > Australian Organisations Experiencing Highest Rate of Data Breaches, Reports Rubrik

Australian organisations have reported the highest rate of data breaches compared with global markets in 2023, according to a new survey.

The State of Data Security: Measuring Your Data's Risk report, based on a survey of 1,600 global IT and security leaders as well as telemetry data from 6,100 Rubrik customers, gauged the frequency of cyber incidents related to business email compromises, data breaches, ransomware attacks, insider incidents and inadvertent data exposure.

Data breaches were the most prevalent style of attack in Australia, comprising 54% of all incidents, compared to the global average of 38%. BEC attacks were found to be the second most common attack method in Australia, witnessed in 45% of cyber incidents.

Throughout 2023, Australian organisations experienced an average of 28.17 attacks, which Rubrik found to be on par with the global average of 28.12.

While data breaches were the most common attack type experienced in Australia, ransomware accounted for more than a third - or 36% - of local cyber incidents, compared with 33% globally.

Rubrik says that the prevalence of attacks should push Australian organisations to strongly consider cyber resilience strategies - focused on business continuity and recovery after cyber attacks - and prevention.

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