Top three cost amplifiers grouped column chart

Summary

Figure 17 slide: a grouped column chart pairing high-level and low-level bars for each of the three biggest cost amplifiers, with two columns of body copy to the left.

Visual description

White slide with standard chrome. The left half holds two body columns, the first opening with a bold lead-in ("Figure 17. The three most impactful cost amplifiers out of 27 factors.") into regular text. The right third is a soft gray rounded panel containing a grouped column chart titled "Cost of a data breach for organizations with a high level versus low level of three cost-amplifying factors." Three category groups (Security skills shortage, Security system complexity, Noncompliance with regulations) each show a lavender "High level" column and a blue "Low level or none" column, with dollar values labeled above (e.g. $5.36 vs $3.78). Dollar y-axis $0 to $6 and a "High level / Low level or none" legend below.

Key takeaway

The paired high/low column per category that makes the gap itself the message: the eye reads the height difference between the two bars in each group. Lavender for "high/risky" and blue for "low/safe" sets up a consistent good/bad color logic reused on the mitigator slide that follows.

Reuse notes

Use grouped columns when every category has the same two states and the comparison is within-group, not across-group. Pairs deliberately with the next slide (cost mitigators) as a matched set; keep the chart styling, panel, and color roles identical so the two read as a before/after spread.