Incident Response Cost Calculator

Incident Response Cost Builder

Line-item estimate

Internal labor

Response hours

Blended hourly rate ($)

External forensics & legal

Forensics / IR retainer ($)

Legal counsel / breach coach ($)

Notification & credit monitoring

Individuals affected

Notification cost / person ($)

Monitoring cost / enrollee ($)

Estimated enrollment rate

10%

20%

35%

Downtime

Downtime (hours)

Cost / hour of downtime ($)

Remediation & PR

System remediation / hardening ($)

Crisis comms / PR ($)

Regulatory exposure

Estimated fines / settlement ($, optional)

Insurance offset

Cyber insurance reimbursement ($)

Net estimated response cost

Gross before insurance: $0

Cost composition

Internal labor$0

External forensics & legal$0

Notification & monitoring$0

Downtime$0

Remediation & PR$0

Regulatory fines$0

Insurance reimbursement−$0

A bottom-up estimate built from your own line items rather than industry averages — useful for budgeting a specific incident once scope is roughly known. Adjust any field to reflect your organization's actual rates, vendor quotes, and population size. Figures are planning estimates, not a vendor quote or actuarial calculation.