Cyber Behaviour Benchmark, Belgium

Every figure here has at least 20 people from 5 different organisations behind it. How this works

Enough people. A figure appears only if at least 20 people answered behind it.

Enough organisations. And only if those people came from at least 5 different organisations.

Never a person, never one employer. Every figure is a group average. Nothing on any page shows one person's answers or one named organisation's score.

Anything held back is listed at the foot of this page with the reason. Those answers still count towards the national figure; it is the breakdown we hold back, never the answers. When one group in a list is held back, its average could in principle be worked out by subtracting the others from the national figure. We accept that: a group average names no person and no organisation.

National score ›

Belgium

out of 100

Patchy

Three quarters is what people do and know, with doing counting for more. The last quarter is what they see around them at work.

Participating organisations ›

151

117 of them have reached 5 people, so they have a score of their own.

Completed scans ›

2,719

people, each answering all 30 questions.

The three things the scan measures

Out of 100.

What people see

56 What people do

65 What people know

What people see around them is a quarter of the national score, because it measures the workplace. A person’s own score never counts it: nobody is marked down for a colleague.

Where Belgian organisations sit

The 117 organisations with a score of their own. Click a band to see what it means.

16%65%17%2%

Exposed, 0-49 · 19 organisationsPatchy, 50-69 · 76 organisationsAware, 70-84 · 20 organisationsResilient, 85-100 · held backHeld back, 2%

Exposed, 0-49. Safe habits are the exception rather than the rule. What protects this organisation is mostly its technology, not what its people do day to day.

Patchy, 50-69. Good habits exist but they are uneven: strong in some people and some topics, absent in others. A Patchy organisation is not careless, it is unmanaged.

Aware, 70-84. Safe habits are normal for most people most of the time, and the remaining gaps are specific rather than general.

Resilient, 85-100. Safe habits hold up under pressure, including among people who are busy, new, or being rushed by someone else.

Held back. Where fewer than 5 organisations sit in a band we do not give the number, because it would point at particular employers. Those bands are shown together as one segment.

Where fewer than 5 organisations sit in a band we do not give the number, because it would point at particular employers. Those bands are shown together as one segment.

By sector

Average score out of 100.

Financial services

56 Professional services

By organisation size

Average score out of 100.

Just me

–

Just me is held back. No figure is shown for this group. One appears once at least 5 organisations have taken part, with at least 20 people between them.

By language

Average score out of 100.

English

Dutch

French

By language, not by region. It says nothing about Flanders, Wallonia or Brussels.

Where the country is strong and weak, by topic

The eight subjects the thirty questions cover. Each ring is 25 points.

Belgium, all sectors

Retail, strongest sector

Healthcare, weakest sector

Subjects contain between one and six questions each. Compare the shapes against each other, not one subject against another.

What people do not do

Share of people whose own answer puts them at risk

Working from a public place

17%Backing up critical data

16%Anonymising before using AI tools

14%Challenging an unknown visitor

14%Reviewing who has access

14%Sharing files the approved way

14%Checking links before clicking

14%

Scale to 50%.

What people do not know

Share who got the knowledge question wrong

Reading a link

58%Internal or confidential

55%A computer that may be infected

54%Spotting the real domain

53%After denying a prompt

48%What HTTPS does

47%Phishing from real accounts

40%

Editions

Each edition covers twelve months and keeps its own permanent address.

Edition	Address	Status
2025 demonstration	https://benchmark.psybersafe.com/coalition/benchmark/2025	Published
2026 the live view	https://benchmark.psybersafe.com/coalition/benchmark/2026	In progress
2027	https://benchmark.psybersafe.com/coalition/benchmark/2027	Early 2028

An edition covers a full twelve months, so it is published after the year it covers has ended. It is frozen on the day a named person publishes it and is never edited afterwards. The live view is not an edition and is not for quoting.

What is being held back

What is held back today, and why. This list empties as more organisations take part, and that is the point.

Held back	Behind it	Why
Just me	19 organisations 19 responses	No figure is shown for this group. One appears once at least 5 organisations have taken part, with at least 20 people between them.
40 of 50 cells	grid cells	Splitting by sector and by size together makes fifty small groups. In 18 of them it is organisations that are missing, not people.
Change over time		Nothing to compare against until a second edition publishes.

These answers still count towards the national figure. We are holding back the breakdown, not throwing anything away.

Find out where your organisation stands

You have just read Belgium's picture. Run the scan and get your own: your score and which habits to work on first, and, for organisations in Belgium, how you compare with the national figure and with organisations your size. Free, about six minutes per person, and for organisations in Belgium your answers make the benchmark you have just read a little truer. No individual answer is ever shown to anyone.

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