For organizations experiencing data breaches, the consequences are considerable, especially for security operations. IBM reports that over 25,000 data records are stolen with the average data breach, and costing the targeted company as much as $8.64M per breach in the United States. And it takes on average a staggering 280 days between identifying and containing a data breach (known as the breach cycle). 

As bad as this problem is today, the trajectory is even more dismal.  Fireye, in its M-trends-2020 report, indicated that of all the malware families observed by FireEye, 41 percent were previously unknown. This means that malware creators continually innovate beyond existing malware, making these threats even more difficult to detect.