Customer or staff personal records: names, emails, payment or health data, etc.
Estimated cost of one incident
$0
Response & notification
Downtime & lost business
Recovery & IT
How this estimate works. These are rough, illustrative figures based on published breach-cost research (such as the IBM Cost of a Data Breach report) adapted for Canadian small and mid-size businesses. It is not a quote and not advice. Real costs vary widely with the type of incident, the data involved, and how prepared you are. Response scales with the records you hold, downtime with your daily cost, and recovery with your size. Use it to start a conversation about reducing the risk, then see how ready you are with the incident response quiz and the cyber insurance quiz.
// What this means for your business
Most of this cost is preventable
The cheapest incident is the one that never happens, and the next cheapest is the one you were ready for. We help Canadian businesses put the controls, backups and response plan in place that shrink both the odds and the bill, and that keep cyber-insurance premiums sane. A short conversation now is a lot cheaper than the number above.