Why it costs so much to get hacked in America

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Security Intelligence

IBM

18 episodes

2 days ago

Security Intelligence is a weekly news podcast for cybersecurity pros who need to stay ahead of fast-moving threats. Each week, we cover the latest threats, trend, and stories shaping the digital landscape, alongside expert insights that help make sense of it all. Whether you’re a builder, defender, business leader or simply curious about how to stay secure in a connected world, you’ll find timely updates and timeless principles in an accessible, engaging format.

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Why it costs so much to get hacked in America

Security Intelligence

22 minutes

1 week ago

Why it costs so much to get hacked in America

Why does it cost so much more to get hacked in the United States than anywhere else in the world?

In this special bonus episode of Security Intelligence, we sit down with Michelle Alvarez, Manager of Strategic Threat Analysis at IBM X-Force, for a deep dive into IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report—and one of its most surprising findings: global breach costs are falling, but US breach costs just hit a record high.

What’s driving the gap?

In this episode, we unpack:

Why faster detection and containment are lowering breach costs globally
Why shadow AI is quietly increasing breach risk and driving up response costs
Why regulatory fines, global operations and organizational scale hit US companies especially hard
And how supply chain breaches, cloud complexity and shadow IT amplify the damage

We also explore a critical inflection point ahead: AI isn’t a major attack target yet—but once adoption crosses key market concentration thresholds, attackers will follow the ROI.

All that and more on Security Intelligence

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