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Large orgs represent only 2% of cyber claims, but 51% of costs
['Technology Editor', 'Accounting Today']
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The average large company—$12.5 billion in annual revenue—was more than 116 times larger than the average SME, with $108 million in annual revenue.
The most common source of loss, overwhelmingly, was ransomware, representing an average incident cost of $631,000 versus the next highest source, wire transfer fraud, which had an average cost of $171,000.
Health care organizations bore the brunt of the costs, having an average incident cost of $566,000; professional services firms, such as accounting practices, bore an average cost of $271,000 by comparison.
"At SMEs, professional services claims accounted for 18% of all claims and 18% of total incident cost greater than $1K.
Excepting an extreme outlier event in 2022, average incident cost has been low.