When a security incident involves virtual machines in either a public or private cloud environment, the recovery costs double compared to that of a traditional environment. In a survey of 5,500 companies, enterprises paid an average of $800,000 to cover from a security breach involving virtualization, compared to $400,000 in traditional environments. Small and midsized businesses, meanwhile, saw costs rise from $26,000-to $60,000 with virtualization. There were three main reasons for this cost difference, Kaspersky Lab’s Andrey Pozhogin said.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2974712/report-virtualization-doubles-cost-of-security-breach.html