- Nearly a third of the cyber events encompassed by the study potentially could have been prevented if zero trust was deployed, assuming proper cyber security hygiene was also applied
- Companies can limit the risk of a damaging cyber incident by deploying zero trust, potentially reducing insured cyber loss by up to 31% annually
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZS), the leader in cloud security, today published a special report, examining the number of cyber incident insurance claims that potentially could have been avoided if the victim organization had deployed a zero trust architecture. Using the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center’s proprietary cyber losses dataset from the past eight-years, which collates cyber incidents from past claims, researchers estimated that overall cyber losses could have been potentially reduced by up to 31% had the organizations widely deployed zero trust security. This adds up to a projected reduction of up to $465 billion in global annual total economic losses.
The analysis showed that North America experienced significantly more cyber incidents than the rest of the world during the past eight-year period, experiencing almost four times the amount of European cyber incidents. However, of the total incidents encompassed by the …