Industry research
Post-Authentication Data Security Gap: Why More Cybersecurity Spending Leaves Your Liability Unaddressed
Why your cybersecurity stack isn't reducing your biggest liability — and why the right question is no longer "Can someone get in?" but "What happens to your data when they do?" Research and actuarial modeling by Redpoint Cyber (powered by X-Analytics), published in partnership with FenixPyre, Inc.
What this paper covers
The paradoxThe diagnosisPost-authentication data securityThe evidenceBoard & CFO implicationsMercor · Waymo · xAI01
Industry report · May 2026
$10.22M
Average US breach cost, 2025
+9.2%
Year-over-year increase vs. 2024
15th
Consecutive year US ranked highest globally
$188B
Global cybersecurity spend, growing ~12% annually
The paradox. Investment and breach liability are rising in parallel — a signal the core problem is not only at the access layer, but in what happens to data after someone is already in.
Figures cited from IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 (Ponemon Institute) and industry spend estimates referenced in the full paper.
