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Virtualization Doubles the Cost of Security Breach - CSO

August 24, 2015

Virtualization Doubles the Cost of Security Breach - CSO

CSO, by Maria Korolov

When a security incident involves virtual machines in either a public or private cloud environment, the recovery costs double compared to that of a traditional environment, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab. In a survey of 5,500 companies that the company conducted with B2B International, enterprises paid an average of $800,000 to cover from a security breach involving virtualization, compared to $400,000 in traditional environments.

Small and midsized businesses, meanwhile, saw costs rise from an average of $26,000 to $60,000 with virtualization.

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Virtualization Doubles the Cost of Security Breach - CSO

Virtualization Doubles the Cost of Security Breach - CSO
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