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What would a data breach actually cost you?
Pick your industry, record count, and region. This calculator reads two published benchmarks side by side: the industry-average total cost of a breach and a per-record figure scaled to your data footprint. Every number traces to its cited source, the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report and the Verizon DBIR. No signup, no email.
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Estimate breach exposure from published benchmarks.
Pick your industry, record count, and region. The model reads two published lenses side by side: the industry-average total cost of a breach and a per-record figure multiplied by the records you hold. Every figure traces to its cited source.
Your inputs
Use the industry IBM breaks out closest to yours.
Geography IBM reports for your primary operations.
This calculator does not display a dollar estimate yet. The cost coefficients have not been verified against their published sources, so showing a figure would risk an unsourced number, which this tool does not do.
To turn it on, fill content/breach-cost-coefficients.ts with the real published figures from the cited IBM Cost of a Data Breach and Verizon DBIR editions, paste each verbatim quote, then set COEFFICIENTS_VERIFIED to true. Until then this panel stands in for the result, by design.
- Industry-average total cost of a breach, sourced to IBM Cost of a Data Breach for the selected industry and region.
- A per-record lens: IBM's published cost-per-record figure multiplied by the records you hold.
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How this is calculated
Two published lenses, no invented multipliers.
The calculator reads only what is published. The first lens is the industry-average total cost of a breach: the figure IBM prints for your selected industry in its Cost of a Data Breach Report, adjusted by region where IBM reports a regional figure. The second lens is per-record: IBM's published cost-per-record figure multiplied by the number of records you enter. The two answer different questions, so we show them side by side rather than averaging them into one headline that hides its own assumptions.
Mitigation toggles, such as extensive use of security AI and automation, or having a tested incident-response plan, are modeled strictly as the cost difference IBM publishes for that factor. If a given edition of the report does not publish a delta for a factor, that toggle is removed rather than estimated. There is no house-built multiplier anywhere in this tool.
Because every figure must trace to a primary source, the calculator will not display a dollar amount until its coefficients have been verified against the cited editions. Until then it shows a pending-verification notice in place of the result. The sources are the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report and the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. These are industry benchmarks, not a prediction for your organization.
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