Annual Study Reveals Average Cost of Cyber Crime Escalates 96 Percent to $12.7 Million per Organization - Seite 2

• The most costly cyber crimes are those caused by denial of services, malicious insiders and malicious code. These account for more than 55 percent of all cyber crime costs per organization on an annual basis.³
• Information theft continues to represent the highest external cost, followed by the costs associated with business disruption.⁴ On an annual basis, information theft accounts for 40 percent of total external costs (down 2 percent from the five-year average), while costs associated with disruption to business or lost productivity account for 38 percent of external costs (up 7 percent from the five-year average).
• Recovery and detection are the most costly internal activities, accounting for 49 percent of the total annual internal activity cost with cash outlays and direct labor representing the majority of these costs.¹

Deployment of security intelligence solutions makes a difference
Organizations using security intelligence technologies were more efficient in detecting and containing cyber attacks. For those having deployed a SIEM solution, the average cost savings was $5.3 million per year, a 32 percent increase in savings from last year. Organizations with technologies such as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Next-generation Firewall (NGFW) boasted a 15 percent ROI result.

"Business disruption, information loss and the time it takes to detect a breach collectively represented the highest cost to organizations experiencing a breach," said Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder, Ponemon Institute. "Based on more than 2,000 interviews, the annual Cost of Cyber Crime research continues to provide valuable insights into the rising cost of cyber attacks to help organizations across all industries understand the serious financial impact that can result if measures are not taken to put solutions, process and expertise in place to minimize risk."

In addition to the fifth annual study of U.S. organizations, Ponemon conducted cyber cost studies for organizations in Australia, Germany, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. A study of Russian companies was conducted for the first time this year. Of the countries surveyed, the U.S. sample reported the highest total average cost of cyber crime at $12.7 million, while the Russian sample reported the lowest, at $3.3 million.¹ The global results are available in a separate report entitled, 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime.