LATEST INTELLIGENCE
2018 COST OF A DATA BREACH STUDY
BENCHMARK RESEARCH SPONSORED BY IBM SECURITY
INDEPENDENTLY CONDUCTED BY PONEMON INSTITUTE
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BM Security and Ponemon Institute are pleased
to release the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study:
Global Overview. This year we conducted
interviews with more than 2,200 IT, data protection,
and compliance professionals from 477 companies
that have experienced a data breach over the past
12 months. According to the findings, data breaches
continue to be costlier and result in more consumer
records being lost or stolen, year after year. In addition to presenting trends in the various
components of the cost of a data breach, the global
study determines the likelihood that an organization will
have one or more data breaches in the next two years.
This year we found that the average total cost of a
data breach, the average cost for each lost or stolen
record (per capita cost), and the average size of
data breaches have all increased beyond the 2017
report averages: • The average global probability of a material
breach in the next 24 months is 27.9 percent, an
increase over last year’s 27.7 percent
• South Africa has the highest probability of
experiencing a data breach at 43 percent
• Germany has the lowest probability of having a
future data breach at 14.3 percent.
• The average total cost rose from $3.62 to $3.86
million, an increase of 6.4 percent
• The average cost for each lost record rose from
$141 to $148, an increase of 4.8 percent
• The average size of the data breaches in this
research increased by 2.2 percent
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Two factors were used to determine the probability
of a future data breach: the size of the data breach
reported in this year’s research and where the
organization is located.
As in past years, our study reports on the
relationship between how quickly an organization
can identify and contain data breach incidents and
the financial consequences.
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