What’s new in the 2023 Cost of a Data Breach report

Data breach costs continue to grow, according to new research, reaching a record-high global average of $4.45 million, representing a 15% increase over three years. Costs in the healthcare industry continued to top the charts, as the most expensive industry for the 13th year in a row. Yet as breach costs continue to climb, the research points to new opportunities for containing breach costs.

The research, conducted independently by Ponemon Institute and analyzed and published by IBM Security, constitutes the …

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