- Privacy policy
- 03 Oct, 2026
$4.99M Breach vs $2.5M Compliance Budget: The 2026 Ratio
In 2026, the average data breach costs $4.99 million, per IBM, while many large organizations' entire annual privacy budget sits just above EUR 2.5 million, per Cisco. See the compliance-versus-non-compliance cost gap and the 2.71x ratio study behind it.
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