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Untangling the Costs of Cyber Breach Recovery (and Strategies to Avoid Overbilling)

By Christian Geyer
November 01, 2024

The global average cost of a data breach has surged 10% in the past year, reaching a record high $4.88 million. While operational downtime and lost customers remain major contributors, a growing portion of these costs stem from inefficient post-breach responses, particularly non-compliance with regulatory standards and the fines that come along with that. With regulatory pressure mounting, companies are leaning harder on legal professionals to steer them through the post-breach maze — ensuring that every notification is compliant, every deadline is met, and every dollar spent is strategic. In a landscape where one misstep can mean millions, navigating cyber recovery has become as much a legal challenge as a technical one.

The Cost of Improper Notification

Non-compliance, in the context of a breach, goes beyond failing to meet privacy, security, and data-handling regulations ahead of the breach (which often contribute to the breach itself). It also includes failure to meet post-breach requirements, particularly those related to notification. 

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