11:11 Systems’ New Global Survey Reveals IT Leaders Are Overwhelmed by Cyber Recovery Complexity

London , UK – 7thOctober 2025—11:11 Systems, a leading managed infrastructure provider, today announced its latest research findings. A new global study of over 800 senior IT leaders reveals that complexity, overconfidence, and lack of expertise are leaving businesses dangerously exposed to cyber threats.  The survey, conducted across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, highlights that 81% of IT leaders believe their organisations are overconfident in their cyber incident...

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— 11:11 Systems, a leading managed infrastructure provider, today announced its latest research findings. A new global study of over 800 senior IT leaders reveals that complexity, overconfidence, and lack of expertise are leaving businesses dangerously exposed to cyber threats.  

The survey, conducted across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, highlights that 81% of IT leaders believe their organisations are overconfident in their cyber incident recovery capabilities, despite facing mounting challenges. Highlighting the scale of these challenges, the research found 82% of respondents have experienced at least one cyberattack in the last 12 months, of which 57% endured two or more cyberattacks in the past year. Worse yet, 74% of respondents are concerned that integrating AI into their businesses could increase their vulnerability to cyber attacks. 

Among European respondents, who made up 48% of the global sample, 40% cited planning complexity as their top concern, this increased to 42% in the Netherlands and UK. 

There were significant financial losses reported by European respondents from just one hour of cyber-related downtime. 

With more than 50% of respondents stating that recovery times following a cyber incident take between a week or two to recover, this figure quickly adds up, costing affected organisations millions in downtown, business disruption along with legal fees and fines.  

Despite these costs and risks associated with cyber breaches and even minor incidents, only 17% of European businesses have fully leveraged the expertise of cyber recovery providers. More than half (54%) prefer a hybrid approach, while 21% manage recovery in-house and 8% lack any formal plan altogether. 

When asked how to improve their cyber recovery preparedness, responses varied, with one quarter (25%) calling for better staff training and awareness, while 22% of respondents cited greater investment in cyber incident recovery solutions followed by better integration of cyber resiliency and disaster recovery planning (20%) this was slightly higher in France. One fifth (20%) said more frequent testing and simulations would improve preparedness, while 13% of respondents cited increased automation in recovery processes. 

59% of European respondents identified application-level recovery solution customisation as extremely important, while another 36% considered it somewhat important. 

Encouragingly, 97% of European respondents plan to invest in cyber incident recovery within the next 12 months. 

Sean Tilley, Senior Director of Sales at 11:11 Systems, commented:  

  

Although more UK respondents had experienced a minor incident (54%) compared to France and the Netherlands, only 7% of respondents had experienced significant cyber-attacks multiple times in the past year compared to France (16%) and the Netherlands (26%). 

AI driven phishing attacks are a major concern for companies in the Netherlands with 60% of respondents stating that they have experienced this type of attack, the highest in all regions surveyed. Yet, social engineering attacks were at the lowest for respondents in the Netherlands, where only 6% had experienced such an AI-driven attack while France was one of the highest (24%). For the UK autonomous and mutating malware attacks were the highest in the region at 39%. 

Despite this, 92% of French respondents were overly confident or somewhat overconfident in their cyber incident recovery capabilities. This was lower in the Netherlands, where respondents stated that they were realistic about their capabilities (40%). 

Sean Tilley states:  

 

 

The 2025 Cyber Resilience Report from 11:11 Systems gathered insights from 800+ senior IT, security and risk leaders in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, representing companies with at least 1,000 employees. The data reflects the alarming complexities of cyber recovery planning, growing concern around AI, rising costs of downtime and the pressing need for organisations to modernise their cyber recovery strategies.  

396 (45%) of the respondents were from Europe (UK, 23%, Netherlands 13%, France 12%). Total global respondents were 800+ senior IT security professionals. The European cohort comprised 204 cybersecurity professionals and 192 DR professionals.  

The full 11:11 2025 Global Cybersecurity Report is available now for download at https://1111systems.com/wp-2025-global-cyber-trends-report-ebook/ 

For more information on 11:11 Systems, visit https://1111systems.com/ 

11:11 Systems is a managed infrastructure solutions provider that empowers customers to modernise, protect, and manage mission-critical applications and data, leveraging 11:11’s resilient cloud platform. Learn more at www.1111Systems.com. 

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