Organizations suffer a significant storage attack roughly once a month, and the average cost of the worst single hit clears USD5 million. Yet only 47% of IT security practitioners rate their own cyber resilience as high. That gap between how often attacks land and how prepared organizations actually are is the central, uncomfortable finding of this Ponemon Institute’s 2025 State of Cyber Resilience report.

This report, sponsored by Everpure, replaces gut feel with hard numbers across three fronts that matter: where attacks come from, what they actually cost, and where defenses are quietly failing. The data exposes a sector still over-reliant on legacy backup, under-invested in automation, and dangerously blind to 36% of its own stored data. If you’re setting security priorities or justifying storage investment in 2025, this report provides the evidence and ammunition.

What you'll learn:

• Attacks hit monthly, cost USD5M a pop, with backup accounting 31% of the cost.
• Recovery takes 12 days — that’s 12 days offline for mission-critical apps.
• Only 47% of practitioners rate themselves as genuinely resilient.
• 36% of stored data is “dark”, which is unclassified and unprotected.
• Legacy backup is the biggest cost driver, not the solution.
• Only 41% can consistently manage data across all environments.
• Automation is the unlock, but under-deployed.
• AI is promising and risky in equal measure.
• Half of organizations don’t even measure cyber resilience.