Canadian Cybersecurity Trends: Bridging Strategy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Human Expertise

In the past 12 months, 87% of Canadian organisations have reported experiencing a security incident.

Between 2023 and 2024, Canadian businesses conducted an average of 17 GenAI proof-of-concepts (PoCs).

There has been a 10% year-over-year increase in the length of downtime per security incident on Canadian organizations.

61% of Canadian organisations report that their public cloud environments have been the most impacted by cyberattacks.

Canadian organisations experience an average downtime of 14 days due to increasingly effective cyberattacks.

28% of GenAI PoCs successfully transitioned to full production in Canadian businesses.

41% of Canadian organisations have already adopted MDR services.

64% of Canadian organisations cite data privacy concerns as a common barrier to GenAI adoption.

57% of Canadian organisations cite skills shortages as a common barrier to GenAI adoption .

Canadian organisations conducting annual security testing indicated an average of 23 incidents and 33 breaches in their cloud environments compared to 25 incidents and 29 breaches respectively for those without regular testing .

37% of Canadian organisations are planning to adopt MDR services in the near future.

44% of Canadian organisations cite system integration complexities as a common barrier to GenAI adoption .