Assessing the Financial Impacts of Data Downtime: A Practical Guide to Cost Calculation
Data downtime is no longer just an IT issue — it has become a direct threat to the balance sheet. Recent industry reports show that unplanned outages cost organisations hundreds of thousands of euros per hour on average, with critical sectors regularly facing figures above one million euros per hour of disruption. With NIS2 now fully enforceable and cyber insurance renewals demanding hard evidence of recoverability, leadership teams must be able to put a realistic euro amount on the cost of an outage.