{"id":14056,"date":"2025-07-02T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abrahamsconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=14056"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:10:36","slug":"ibm-2023-cost-of-a-data-breach-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrahamsconsulting.com\/blog\/ibm-2023-cost-of-a-data-breach-report\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity technologies are a critical, but also often an expensive necessity for organizations today. When deciding on security solutions and processes, it helps to understand the causes and costs of data breaches. To help, we&#8217;re providing the well-known, annual IBM-Ponemon Institute&#8217;s report, &#8220;The Cost of a Data Breach,&#8221; which surveys organizations on how data breaches have impacted themThis reportrt for 2023 \u2014 conducted independently by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored, analyzed and published by IBM Security\u00ae\u2014studied 553 organizations impacted by data breaches that occurred between March 2022 and March 2023.  <\/p>\n<p>Download this free research to learn about the root causes and short-term and long-term consequences of data breaches. The report also explores the factors and technologies that enabled companies to limit losses \u2014as well as those that led to increased costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuf.in\/bgn5ov\" target=\"_blank\">View: IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$4.45 million is the average cost of a data breach, according to the 2023 IBM\/Ponemon &#8220;Cost of a Data Breach&#8221; report.  <\/p>\n<p>See those costs broken down by industry, country, business size, type of expense and more, as well as root causes and useful approaches and tools for preventing and mitigating a breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report - TechTonic Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abrahamsconsulting.com\/blog\/ibm-2023-cost-of-a-data-breach-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report - TechTonic Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"$4.45 million is the average cost of a data breach, according to the 2023 IBM\/Ponemon &quot;Cost of a Data Breach&quot; report.  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