LIVE FINANCIAL IMPACT SIMULATOR

THE BREACH
COST CLOCK

The average attacker spends 194 days inside a network before being detected. Every second costs money. See yours tick away — live.

BASED ON IBM CDR 2024 · SABRIC 2024 · VERIZON DBIR 2024
194 DAYS AVG DWELL TIME R89M AVG SA BREACH COST 68% OF SA FIRMS HIT BY RANSOMWARE POPIA FINES UP TO R10M 60% OF SMES CLOSE WITHIN 6 MONTHS 194 DAYS AVG DWELL TIME R89M AVG SA BREACH COST 68% OF SA FIRMS HIT BY RANSOMWARE POPIA FINES UP TO R10M 60% OF SMES CLOSE WITHIN 6 MONTHS
R89M
Avg. breach cost
in South Africa
194
Days to detect
a breach (avg.)
60%
SMEs close within
6 months of breach

IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024 · Verizon DBIR 2024 · SABRIC 2024 · POPIA Guidelines

SME Reality Check: 60% of small businesses that suffer a breach close within 6 months. For a business turning over R1M/year, even a R300K breach represents 30% of annual revenue — before POPIA fines.

BREACH IN PROGRESS — DAY 1 OF 194
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Your Breach. Right Now.

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POPIA Regulatory Exposure

Under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act, a breach exposing customer data can trigger fines of up to R10 million and up to 10 years imprisonment for responsible parties — plus mandatory breach notification to the Information Regulator.

R10M
Max fine
10 yrs
Max prison
72 hrs
Notification window
Of projected breach
The simulation ended. Your risk hasn't.

Every day you wait,
the cost goes up.

This simulation is based on your industry's real breach statistics. A Greyhat4Hire penetration test doesn't cost you R89M. It costs a fraction of that — and it stops this clock before it ever starts.

Your projected breach: vs A pentest:
24h Response NDA First Fixed Pricing POPIA Compliant