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Global cyber security benchmarks don’t reflect A/NZ threat profiles

Ground your security decisions in local data to prioritise spend, prove resilience, and reduce risk.

Justify security investments with A/NZ data

Expose how your cyber budget compares to local peers to support funding decisions.

Spot hidden exposure in your defenses

Benchmark prevention, detection, and recovery to pinpoint gaps that increase risk.

Prove resilience to leadership

Demonstrate year-on-year maturity improvements and track progress across governance, risk, and operations.

ADAPT’s IT maturity benchmarking validated our assumptions and provided the evidence we needed to significantly bolster Nestlé’s digital transformation journey.

Rosalie Adriano Former CIO at Nestle

Explore key insights in the
Cyber Resilience & Security Benchmark

Benchmark Sample

Budget allocation by security domain

See how peers distribute cyber budgets across data protection, infrastructure, applications, endpoints, identity, compliance, enterprise risk, and awareness and training. Identify over or under-investment by domain.

Cyber resilience score

Benchmark your overall resilience score against A/NZ peers by industry and size. See where you are strong and where prevention, detection, response, or recovery need attention.

Security budget per employee

Compare your approximate security budget per employee against industry averages to assess efficiency and funding gaps. Ideal for CFO discussions.

Budget allocation by security domain

See how peers distribute cyber budgets across data protection, infrastructure, applications, endpoints, identity, compliance, enterprise risk, and awareness and training. Identify over or under-investment by domain.

Cyber resilience score

Benchmark your overall resilience score against A/NZ peers by industry and size. See where you are strong and where prevention, detection, response, or recovery need attention.

Security budget per employee

Compare your approximate security budget per employee against industry averages to assess efficiency and funding gaps. Ideal for CFO discussions.

Benchmark Sample

Win support, realign priorities,
and validate resilience

Benchmark your cyber resilience and security in three simple steps

Benchmark your IT maturity
across core technology domains. 

IT Budget &
Resourcing Allocation
Compare your IT spend and allocation with peers in A/NZ. Use it to spot gaps, justify investments, and align spends with industry signals. Learn more
Data & AI
Readiness
Compare your organisation’s data maturity, tooling, and AI use case deployment with local peers. Guide AI strategy and investments. Learn more
Cyber Resilience &
Security
Assess your security posture, budgets, and maturity against local peers of similar size and complexity. Inform focus and funding with data. Currently viewing
Modernisation &
Simplification
Know how far you’ve progressed in modernising core infrastructure, applications, and workflows — compared to peer organisations.
Digital, CX & EX Transformation Measure your organisation’s digital maturity, CX/EX readiness and Gen AI adoption against Australian peers. Identify gaps and reprioritise investments.
Cloud, Compute & FinOps Maturity Understand how your organisation stacks up on managing cloud spend, infrastructure workloads, and FinOps adoption - vis a vis peers in A/NZ.
IT Budget &
Resourcing Allocation
Compare your IT spend and allocation with peers in A/NZ. Use it to spot gaps, justify investments, and align spends with industry signals. Learn more
Data & AI
Readiness
Compare your organisation’s data maturity, tooling, and AI use case deployment with local peers. Guide AI strategy and investments. Learn more
Cyber Resilience &
Security
Assess your security posture, budgets, and maturity against local peers of similar size and complexity. Inform focus and funding with data. Currently viewing
Modernisation &
Simplification
Know how far you’ve progressed in modernising core infrastructure, applications, and workflows — compared to peer organisations.
Digital, CX & EX Transformation Measure your organisation’s digital maturity, CX/EX readiness and Gen AI adoption against Australian peers. Identify gaps and reprioritise investments.
Cloud, Compute & FinOps Maturity Understand how your organisation stacks up on managing cloud spend, infrastructure workloads, and FinOps adoption - vis a vis peers in A/NZ.
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C-level respondents
200+ sample size
30% of A/NZ GDP represented
Annual benchmark reports

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