What would a security incident actually cost you?
Most business owners can picture the ransom demand. Few picture the weeks offline, the staff who can't work, the tender they miss, and the customers who quietly go elsewhere. This calculator puts a real number on all of it, specific to your business.
Jump straight to the calculatorThe risk is real, and it’s not slowing down
These aren’t scare tactics. They’re the most recent figures from the Australian government and independent industry research, cited so you can check them yourself.
Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for small businesses in 2025–26, holding steady on the year before.
Source: Australian Signals Directorate, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for medium-sized businesses, up 45% in a single year. The sharpest rise of any business size.
Source: Australian Signals Directorate, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26Of Australians do not review their privacy or location settings. Separately, 64% have personally identifiable information visible on social media.
Source: Australian Signals Directorate, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26The rate at which Australian businesses and individuals reported cybercrime to ReportCyber in 2025–26, more than 82,000 reports for the year.
Source: Australian Signals Directorate, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26The increase in publicly reported common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), the known software flaws attackers use to get in.
Source: Australian Signals Directorate, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26Still the most reported cybercrime in Australia, although reports of it fell 18% on the year before.
Source: Australian Signals Directorate, Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26Work out your own number
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Your estimated daily downtime cost
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per day you're offline or disrupted
What this number doesn’t capture
The daily cost above is just wages and overheads still going out the door, and revenue not coming in. A real incident usually brings extra costs on top that are harder to put a precise number on, but are just as real.
- Missing a tender or sales deadline because your systems are down
- Not being able to process payroll or pay suppliers on time
- Penalty clauses, rework, or delays on projects already underway
- Specialist recovery costs and replacing damaged infrastructure
- Customers who quietly move to a competitor and don’t come back
Are you spending enough to reduce this risk?
A dollar figure for what an incident could cost is only half the picture. The other half is whether your current IT investment is realistically enough to make that incident less likely, and less severe, in the first place.