Case study showing how an IT services firm lost £350k/month in developer capacity due to a security breach, identified via BlueOptima analytics.

Success Story: Financial Implications of a Security Breach

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Customer Success Story: Security — Financial Implications of a Security Breach

Project Overview

The Background

While a historical analysis of the Client’s software estate was being completed, BlueOptima identified an unusual drop in productivity over the past few years of activity, at which point the Client revealed there had been a security breach. The Client’s security breach had caused a mass productivity drop across the company’s entire software estate. However, the Client was yet to understand the entire extent of the damage so they worked with BlueOptima to uncover the full story.

The Results

An analysis of data comparing monthly results showed that there had been between £250,000 and £350,000 lost in capacity per month during the security breach.

As a result of that particular attack, the Client implemented a product backlog in order to keep developers and/or suppliers engaged in improvements while future breaches were being resolved.