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What would one cyberattack cost your trucking company?

Put in your own numbers. The calculator prices three attacks that hit carriers today and compares each one with a year of protection.

Your company

Annual revenue

Computers and servers

Office PCs, laptops and servers. Not trucks or ELD tablets.

If ransomware locks your systems

Days your systems are down

7 days

About half of companies hit in 2025 were fully back within a week (Sophos).

How much of your business stops while dispatch, TMS and billing are down?

Recovery cost: incident response, rebuilding systems, overtime

Default is the 2025 average for organizations with 100 to 5,000 employees, ransom not included (Sophos). Change it if you have your own estimate.

Include paying the ransom ($1,000,000, the 2025 median payment per Sophos)

Fake payment email and stolen load

A typical payment you send or receive by email

Default is the average business email compromise loss reported to the FBI in 2025.

Value of one high-value load you haul

Default is the average value of a stolen load in the US and Canada in 2025 (CargoNet).

A year of protection

24/7 monitoring and response, per computer per month

Market range for small and mid-size companies is roughly $5 to $25.

Other yearly security costs: assessment, staff training, tools

Your incident bill

Tick the attacks to add them to one bad year.

A year of protection$50,000

120 computers, monitored 24/7

Ransomware attack$1,721,781

$191,781 in lost revenue over 7 days, plus $1,530,000 to recover

Green is the protection, red is the incident.Costs 34× your yearly protection.

One fake payment email$123,000

Money wired to a criminal after a spoofed or hacked email.

Green is the protection, red is the incident.Costs 2.5× your yearly protection.

One stolen load$273,990

Freight released to a thief posing as a carrier or broker.

Green is the protection, red is the incident.Costs 5.5× your yearly protection.

One bad year could cost

$2,118,771

That is 42 times what a year of protection costs.

Book a free threat assessment

These are estimates built from published averages and your own inputs, not a quote. Protection lowers the odds and the cost of an incident; no security program can promise zero incidents.

How the numbers work

Ransomware cost = revenue lost while you are down (annual revenue ÷ 365 × days down × share of business stopped) + recovery cost, plus the ransom if you tick that box.
Protection cost = computers × monthly price × 12 + other yearly security costs.
“Times” = the incident cost divided by your yearly protection cost.

Sources: Sophos State of Ransomware 2025 · FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report · Verisk CargoNet 2025 analysis · MDR market pricing

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