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Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions and Statistics For 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-01-08 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.
\nEvery IT position is also a cybersecurity position now. Every IT worker, every technology worker, needs to be involved with protecting and defending apps, data, devices, infrastructure and people.
\nThere will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally in 2024\u00a0\u2014 enough to fill 50 NFL stadiums \u2014 according to Cybersecurity Ventures. This is up from Cisco\u2019s previous estimation of 1 million cybersecurity openings in 2014.
\nThe cybersecurity unemployment rate is at zero percent\u00a0(for experienced workers, not entry-level positions), where it\u2019s been since 2011.
\nSurging cybercrime will result in a similarly large number of unfilled positions over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n

4. Global ransomware damage costs are predicted to exceed $265 billion by 2031.
\nGlobal ransomware damage costs were predicted to reach $20 billion annually in 2021, up from $325 million in 2015, which is a 57X increase. In eight years from now, the costs will exceed $265 billion.\u00a0\u00a0
\nCybersecurity Ventures predicted that a business fell victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds in 2021, up from every 14 seconds in 2019.\u00a0 This makes ransomware the fastest-growing type of cybercrime.
\nThe frequency of ransomware attacks on governments, businesses, consumers, and devices will continue to rise over the next 8 years and reach every two seconds\u00a0by 2031.
\n5. The world will need to cyber protect 200 zettabytes of data by 2025.
\nTotal global data storage is projected to exceed 200 zettabytes by 2025. This includes data stored on private and public IT infrastructures, on utility infrastructures, on private and public cloud data centers, on personal computing devices \u2014 PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones \u2014 and on IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices.
\nCybersecurity Ventures predicts that the total amount of data stored in the cloud \u2014 which includes public clouds operated by vendors and social media companies (think Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, etc.), government-owned clouds that are accessible to citizens and businesses, private clouds owned by mid-to-large-sized corporations, and cloud storage providers \u2014 will reach 100 zettabytes by 2025, or\u00a050 percent of the world\u2019s data\u00a0at that time, up from approximately 25 percent stored in the cloud in 2015.<\/p>\n

6. The cyberinsurance market is predicted to hit $14.8 billion annually by 2025.
\nThe increasing rate of cyberinsurance adoption is expected to surge over the next decade, as the growing profile of large-scale cyberattacks \u2014 and the accompanying financial risk they impose \u2014 prompts company directors and executives to move to limit their company\u2019s exposure to cybersecurity compromise.
\nCybersecurity Ventures predicts the cyberinsurance market will grow from approximately $8.5 billion in 2021 to\u00a0$14.8 billion in 2025, and exceed $34 billion by 2031, based on a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 15 percent over an 11-year period (2020 to 2031) calculated.
\n7. Cryptocrime is predicted to cost the world $30 billion annually by 2025.
\nRapid growth in the use of decentralized finance (DeFi) services is creating a new soft spot for global financial systems, fostering new methods of cryptocrime for cybercriminals whose \u201crug pulls\u201d and other attacks will, Cybersecurity Ventures predicts, cost the world $30 billion in 2025 alone.
\nThat\u2019s nearly twice the $17.5 bilion lost in 2021 \u2014 and expected to grow by 15 percent annually as the cryptocurrency market continues to expand, fueling cybercriminals\u2019 increasing interest in pilfering cryptocurrency stores.
\nCybercriminals\u2019 attention to crypto is manifesting in a range of ways, including direct exchange hacks and scams designed to trick people into handing over their cryptocurrency holdings for any number of false purposes.
\n8. Women are predicted to hold 30 percent of cybersecurity positions globally by 2025.
\nWomen held 25 percent of cybersecurity jobs globally in 2022, up from 20 percent in 2019, and around 10 percent in 2013.
\nWe predict that women will represent 30 percent of the global cybersecurity workforce by 2025, and that will reach 35 percent by 2031. This goes beyond securing corporate networks and includes IoT, IIoT and ICS security, and cybersecurity for medical, automotive, aviation, military defense, and other.
\nThe gender gap becomes a chasm when we consider the top roles in cybersecurity. For example, women hold only 17 percent of chief information security officer (CISO) roles at Fortune 500 companies.<\/p>\n

9. 90 percent of the human population, aged 6 years and older, will be online by 2030
\nRoughly one million more people join the internet every day.
\nThere were around 6 billion people connected to the internet interacting with data in 2022, up from 5 billion in 2020 \u2014 and we predict there will be more than 7.5 billion internet users in 2030.\u00a0
\nIf street crime grows in relation to population growth, so will cybercrime.<\/p>\n

10. The world will need to secure 338 billion lines of new software code in 2025.
\nWe estimate the world will need to secure 338 billion lines of new software code in 2025, up from 111 billion lines of new code in 2017, based on 15 percent year-over-year growth in new code.
\nThis little-known statistic has been one of the most important for CISOs and security leaders to take note of over the past 5 years.
\nOrganizations globally have a major application testing and scanning chore on their hands which has been created (in part) by self-taught and renegade programmers who\u2019ve generated a massive amount of insecure code.
\nStay tuned for ongoing updates with more cybersecurity market research from the editors at Cybersecurity Ventures.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Steve Morgan is founder and Editor-in-Chief at Cybersecurity Ventures.
\nGo here to read all of my blogs and articles covering cybersecurity. Go here to send me story tips, feedback and suggestions.<\/p>\n

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