http://www.emwllp.com/news/confidential-information-theft-cases-reach-record-high/
The Telegraph puts the average cost at £30,000 but having been through the process of a Data Theft prosecution we didn’t get much change out of £1M so the range is large
The exacting nature of the evidence required in the legal proceedings convinced us at the time that our Log Aggregation and System Monitoring software was well worth it.
It was this prosecution process that formed the conceptual basis for the IP Sentinel monitoring service. It is essential that you can follow the digital fingerprints of an employee when they do bad things.