Cybersecurity

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QUOTESAMPLEAug 2026

Boards still treat ransomware as an IT line item. The organisations that recover fastest rehearsed the decision-making long before the breach.

Thandi Mokoena · Chief Information Security Officer · Meridian Bank
ILLUSTRATIVE ENTRY · fictional speaker and organisation
ENTRY: sourcedesk.co.za/e/n7vr5s
BEAT: Cybersecurity · Demo

STAT2025

US$2.37m

IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average cost of a data breach for South African organisations at US$2.37 million, down from US$2.78 million in 2024.

SOURCE: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 (Ponemon Institute) · 2025
METHOD: Benchmark study of 600 breached organisations worldwide (about 4% in South Africa), breaches from March 2024 to February 2025; country figures in US dollars
ENTRY: sourcedesk.co.za/e/gw6ypb
BEAT: Cybersecurity

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