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Data breach costs hit all-time high

Research from IBM has found that the cost of data breaches rose by 13 per cent over the past two years

‘Businesses need to put their security defences on the offensive and beat attackers to the punch,’ said Charles Henderson, global head of IBM security X-Force

The average cost of a data breach in an enterprise or large organisation has hit $4.35 million (€4.3 million) according to the latest IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report. The IT giant investigated 537 breaches across large organisations for the study and found the average cost of a breach has risen by 13 per cent over the last two years.

The average cost was $1.07 million higher where remote work was a factor in ...