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Black Kite: Cost of data breach averages $15 million.
Based on a review of 2,400 cyber incidents between 2017-2022 at 1,700 companies, cyber risk monitoring firm Black Kite concluded the average cost, excluding outliers, of a data breach today is $15 million.
According to Black Kite's 2022 report, The Cost of a Data Breach: A New Perspective, when outliers are factored in, the average data breach cost soars to $75 million.
For companies with remote workers, the average cost per breach is $1 million higher than companies without remote workers.
Black Kite Research conducted a global data breach cost analysis curated with OSINT techniques, encapsulating 2,400 data breach incidents from 2017-2022 at 1,700 companies.
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