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From the malicious to the unintentional, cyber incidents continue to increase in frequency, severity, and cost to companies. The Ponemon Institute estimates that data breaches now cost companies an average of $174 per record, with many breaches running into the high thousands or millions of records. This says nothing of the costs associated with intellectual property theft and disruptive or destructive incidents. Nor does it account for the reputational harm resulting from cyber incidents, which in-house counsel ranked as their top concern in the ACC Foundation’s recent “State of Cybersecurity Report.” As a result, many companies are in constant crisis mode, contemporaneously trying to prevent, respond to, and recover from incidents.