Hundreds of Data Breaches Per Day and Why That Matters to YOU.

The cost of a data breach makes its way back to your wallet and bank account eventually

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⚙️ Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code.

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I was very surprised when I was just talking to someone to hear them say, yeah I’ve heard of a couple of breaches. In the cybersecurity industry we live in a bubble and see the news about breaches all around us. Other people do not. So for anyone out there who doesn’t understand this there are hundreds of data breaches happening every single day — possibly thousands — and those are just the breaches we know about.

Need proof? Search for data breach in Google and click on news. Head over to the state government pages where businesses are required to report data breaches. Take a look at the Verizon Data Breach Report and the IBM Data Breach Report. Those reports only include what businesses are required to report and reports from businesses who are following those laws.

And you shrug. Yeah. So?