About IncidentCostCalculator.com
An independent calculator for the cost of a security or IT incident: direct response cost, downtime cost, customer impact, regulatory fines and reputational hit. Operated by Digital Signet, founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. Sister site to incidentcost.com which carries the editorial coverage; this site is the working calculator.
Why we built it
Incident-cost calculators online are mostly thin lead-magnets from IR firms (enter your industry, get an inflated estimate, get a sales call). This calculator is the opposite: takes operational inputs (organisation size, industry, downtime hours, records exposed) and returns a working figure with the calculation visible inline so the result can be sanity-checked against the assumption set.
Who runs this site
Oliver runs Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio that builds data-led pricing and decision tools using public datasets. After 20 years as a solutions architect and tech lead across media, utilities, satellite, and data, he founded Digital Signet to apply autonomous AI development methodology to real software at scale.
Reach Oliver: [email protected]. Profile: LinkedIn.
About the studio
This site is operated by Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. It is part of a portfolio of consumer cost-reference and calculator sites we run as a live R&D lab for our Signet methodology, an autonomous AI development team that ships real software at scale.
Digital Signet does not sell incident-response retainers, does not run a forensics practice, does not broker cyber insurance, and does not accept paid placements from any IR firm, insurer or breach-response vendor. Editorial direction is set by Oliver. Drafts are produced via Digital Signet's autonomous AI development methodology and reviewed against the editorial framework before publication.
For consulting enquiries (fractional CTO, AI product strategy, autonomous-dev-team setup): see digitalsignet.com.
What we hold to
- Source pattern. Built on public reference material across the relevant publisher landscape.
- No paid placements. Does not sell incident-response retainers, does not run a forensics practice, does not broker cyber insurance, and does not accept paid placements from any IR firm, insurer or breach-response vendor. Independent of every named third party in the relevant space.
- Math is documented inline. Where the site has a calculator, inputs and assumptions are visible on the calculator page. Nothing is hidden behind opaque scoring.
- Update only when underlying reality changes. Triggers: New IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report edition (annual); New Verizon DBIR edition; Material movement in IR firm published rates; Major regulatory fine schedule change (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI).
Contact
For corrections, methodology questions, or scenarios that don't fit cleanly: [email protected].