The Unseen Wall: How Billions of Attacks Were Blocked in 2025

**Symantec's 2025 telemetry report**: Symantec and Carbon Black blocked approximately 3.2 billion attacks in 2025 using a layered security stack — with IPS responsible for ~3.1 billion blocks (~96.9%), Cloud Protection blocking 2.4 billion (956M by ML), Web Extension 545.3M, Static Protection 72.5M, Dynamic Protection over 26M (including ~98% of ransomware attempts), plus server and EDR metrics demonstrating substantial proactive prevention across enterprise environments.