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THE COST OF SECURITY IMMATURITY IN THE CLOUD
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In its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, IBM Security revealed that 43% of studied organisations are in the early stages of, or haven’t even started, applying security practices across their cloud environments. These organisations observed higher breach costs – at US$660,000 on average – than in studied organisations with mature security across their cloud environments.