ATTACK COST
Free Boardroom-Level Risk & Financial Impact Calculator + PDF Summary
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Attack Cost is built on peer-reviewed industry data and security research. Every cost component is sourced from academic studies, government benchmarks, or publicly reported breach data.
The Attack Cost Calculator models five categories of financial impact: employee productivity loss, revenue disruption, incident response & recovery costs, reputational damage, and market capitalization impact. Each category uses conservative base assumptions derived from publicly available data, which users can adjust to match their organization's profile.
When a stock ticker is entered, the calculator pulls real-time data from Yahoo Finance (employee count, annual revenue, market capitalization) and median employee compensation from SEC DEF 14A proxy filings to populate accurate starting values for that specific company.
Important disclaimer: This calculator models direct and indirect costs of an identity system breach. All figures are estimates based on industry research and should be considered illustrative.
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation survey — used for fully loaded hourly cost benchmarks ($45–$70/hr across industries).
Median employee compensation figures from annual proxy statements — auto-populated when a stock ticker is entered.
Annual revenue figures sourced from SEC filings and Yahoo Finance for real-time ticker lookups.
Gartner / Forrester
Industry benchmarks for average downtime costs and revenue impact during cyber incidents.
Global benchmark: average total cost of a data breach reached $4.44M, with identity-related breaches averaging higher.
Research on incident response costs, forensics, legal notification, and system rebuild expenses across severity levels.
Analysis of stock price effects following data breaches — average 6.7% decline within 5 trading days of disclosure, with major breaches causing 3–15% drops.
Annual analysis of breach vectors — 80%+ of breaches involve compromised credentials, validating identity-centric risk modeling.
Methodology last reviewed: April 2026 · Data sources are refreshed as new reports are published.
The nine ways attackers get in through identity.
Quishing, MFA fatigue, session hijacking and more, defined.
Groups named in US government advisories, every claim sourced.
How breach letters say attackers got in, quoted and linked.