Many years ago, Verizon started a trend by releasing their Data Breaches Investigations Report, and today there are dozens of companies releasing similar offerings. But even with all the competition—some of which are quite good—the original DBIR report is still my favorite. Get the full report Here were my main takeaways from this year’s release. […]
According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, there was a noticeable shift toward financially motivated crime (80 percent), with 35 percent of all breaches occurring as a result of human error, and approximately one quarter of breaches occurring through web application attacks. These attacks were mostly attributable to the use of stolen credentials […]
It’s been a few weeks since Verizon released the 12th edition of its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). For this publication, Verizon’s researchers studied 41,686 security incidents in which a response was necessary. These analysts found that 2,013 of those incidents were data breaches in that some sort of information was actually compromised. Out of […]