
Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024
Don’t let a data breach disrupt your business

IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report offers invaluable insights for IT, risk management, and security professionals. The report empowers leaders to make informed decisions about their security strategies and investments by providing concrete, measurable data.
Based on the experiences of over 600 organizations, this comprehensive benchmark helps organizations:
- In-depth analysis: Understand the root causes of breaches and their potential consequences.
- Cost factors: Discover the factors that can significantly increase or reduce the financial impact of a breach.
- Expert advice: Learn practical strategies to mitigate risks and improve your security posture.
Whether you want to strengthen your security defenses or explore new technologies, IBM’s report provides the data you need to make informed decisions. Don’t wait for a breach to happen. Equip yourself with actionable knowledge and protect your organization’s critical data.
How can IBM Security Guardium Data Protection help?
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection supports a zero-trust approach to security. It discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.
Uncover regulated data in your data stores and use pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and many more, to streamline and automate compliance workflows. Take a tour with this online demo. See how IBM Security Guardium tackles essential data security use cases.
Adopting security AI and automation can cut breach costs
USD 4.88M
The global average cost of a data breach in 2024—a 10% increase over last year and the highest total ever.
1 in 3
Share of breaches that involved shadow data, showing the proliferation of data is making it harder to track and safeguard.
USD 2.22M
The average cost savings in million for organizations that used security AI and automation extensively in prevention versus those that didn’t.

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