2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report

Our research takes a variety of cost factors into account. By providing an overview of our methodology and by defining the factors and their weight and influence on our findings, we hope to help organizations make better decisions regarding resource allocation and to minimize financial consequences when the inevitable data breach strikes.

In this section of the report, we describe what factors we study that affect the cost of a data breach and provide answers to the most frequently asked questions about the study.