While the Forrester report, “The 2021 State of Enterprise Breaches,” found enterprises spend a median of 37 days and a mean of $2.4 million to find and recover from a breach, Forrester also discovered preparation can make a big difference. Organizations that made investments to align their business and security strategies and implemented incident and crisis response plans, along with an IR retainer, were generally able to recover faster than those that failed to prepare.