Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

INTRODUCTION

In October 2013, the Ponemon Institute released a study on the cost of cybercrime in 2013. Among the organizations polled, the average time to resolve an incident was 32 days, and the average cost to resolve an incident was just over US$1 million. That was up from an average of 24 days and just under US$600,000 the year before. The measurable cost to the affected organization is only the beginning because the impact of what criminals do with stolen information is difficult to quantify and is often delayed or never discovered.

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