The Odds Of Suffering A Data Breach

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 11, 2025

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According to research from Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, and attacks, especially ransomware, are now an everyday fact of life.

78 percent of respondents in a CrowdStrike survey acknowledged they were hit by a ransomware attack in the past year.

With the rise of AI-driven threats and an avalanche of enterprise data, it’s not just a matter of “if” but “when” a cyber disruption will strike.

Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO at Commvault who’s lived through a breach as a former CIO, put it pretty simply. Recovery isn’t a nice to have… it’s essential to survival and to bounce back, quickly. “The odds of you being actually breached are higher than not being breached,” Mirchandani said.

It’s a mindset shift that underpins Commvault’s latest release of Cloud Unity. The pitch for Unity isn’t just a basic backup and restore. The magic sauce is that sensitive data is automatically masked and protected, so AI models and analytics access data that’s both centralized and controlled.

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