A recent survey result of 3,200 people in 524 organizations that suffered data breaches is a bit of a mixed bag. Ponemon's, "Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020" (commissioned by IBM), reveals that despite an apparent decline in the average cost of a data breach from $3.92 million in 2019 to $3.86 million this year the price tag was much less for mature companies and industries and far higher for firms that had lackluster security automation and incident response processes. Ponemon's analysis of
