The cost numbers are public. The cited deficiencies are public. The pattern is consistent.
The IBM/Ponemon healthcare breach-cost series has placed healthcare as the highest-cost sector for breach response for fourteen consecutive years. The OCR resolution agreements published under the Risk Analysis Initiative since 2024 cite the same deficiency in nearly every case. Below is what is published, attributed to the source, with no extrapolation.
The IBM/Ponemon healthcare breach cost.
The 2024 IBM Cost of a Data Breach report placed average healthcare breach cost at $9.77 million, the highest of any sector. The figure has exceeded the cross-sector average every year the report has been published. Source: IBM/Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach 2024.
The OCR settlement range.
Risk Analysis Initiative settlements published since early 2024 have ranged from roughly $80,000 to $4.75 million in monetary terms. Each one comes with a multi-year corrective action plan whose implementation cost typically exceeds the monetary settlement. Source: HHS Office for Civil Rights press releases and resolution agreement index.
The recurring cited deficiency.
"Failure to conduct an accurate and thorough risk analysis of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information." The phrase recurs across press releases word-for-word or close to it. The proximate cause cited in the narrative is typically inventory inaccuracy. Source: HHS resolution agreement narratives, 2024–2025.
The HHS breach portal threshold.
Breaches affecting 500 or more individuals are published on the HHS OCR breach portal — sometimes called the "Wall of Shame" — within statutory notification windows. The portal is the public record. Inventory inaccuracy contributes both to the underlying incident and to the response time once an incident occurs. Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal.
What we are not arguing.
CybrIQ does not prevent breaches. It does not promise the OCR-settlement avoidance the figures above might imply. What it does is close the specific inventory-accuracy finding that recurs across the published resolution agreements. The framing matters: a breach is a complex outcome with many contributing factors; the inventory deficiency is a discrete one you can address directly.