Security News > 2020 > January > Data breach: Why it’s time to adopt a risk-based approach to cybersecurity
According to the 2019 Cost of a Data Breach study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a data breach in the UK was $4.88 million - up 10.5% on the previous year.
At the end of the day, data security should not be viewed as simply a technical problem that's handled by technical personnel working in IT. Best practices for minimizing cyber risk.
Web application vulnerabilities have been the top cybersecurity risk for several years, yet only 3% of IT spend is currently directed at web application security.
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