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What does a security breach really cost?

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Stephanie Bond
What does a security breach really cost?

FBI Director Robert Mueller once said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be.” Every business, no matter its industry or scale, is a potential target and unless there is a strong security culture in place, odds are that a breach will occur, causing a loss of information, leakage of critical data or direct financial fraud.

A 2018 study by Ponemon and IBM estimated the global average cost of a data breach at over $3.86 million, a stunning 6.4 per cent increase since the last year.

HBO recently lost 1.5 terabytes of data, including TV show episodes, scripts, manager emails and some actors’ personal information.

Economic Impact: A recent Frost & Sullivan report estimated that a large enterprise in the APAC region, can potentially incur over 30 Million USD in cybersecurity breaches every year.

This not only affects their operational productivity but also hampers their innovation and research capabilities, setting back their growth by months.

This forced Sony Entertainment to shut down operations for an entire month before the situation could be managed.

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