Mean time to identify and contain data breaches worldwide from 2017 to 2025 (in days)

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Release date

August 2025

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017 to 2024

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The source adds the following information: "Mean time to identify refers to the time it takes an organization to uncover a security breach. Mean time to contain refers to the time required to resolve a security breach once it has been identified."

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Global mean time to identify and contain data breaches 2017-2025

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 2, 2026

As of 2025, the mean number of days to identify the data breaches was *** days, six days faster than in the previous year. The mean time companies needed to contain the breaches in the measured year was ** days. In comparison, in 2021, it took organizations *** days to identify and ** days to address the data breaches.

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