2009 cost of data breach

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2009 Cost of Data Breach

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Cost of Data Breach

Fourth annual report by The Ponemon Institute© & PGP Corporation (Feb 2009)

• Costs grew to $202/record or $6.6m per breach

• Lost business now accounts for 69% of breach losses

• 56% of breaches are “inside” jobs

• 84% of companies experience more than one breach per year

Source: Ponemon, Feb 2009

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Average per-record cost of a data breach, 2005–2008

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Average organizational costs of a data breach, 2005–2008

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Average cost of data breach on a per-victim basis, 2005–2008

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Third-party share of data breaches, 2005–2008 Cost of a breach per record, 2005–2008

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Per capita costs of a breach compared by industry classification, 2008

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Primary cause of a data breach, 2008

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Cost of a data breach when proactive risk management is in use, 2008

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Sample composition by industry vertical

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