Mandatory reading for anyone in any realm of cyber security (IT/ICS/OT) every year is the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (VDBIR). Over the years, Verizon and their partners have done incredible work deciphering the IT and Internet threat landscape to help organizations understand and continually adapt in how to best protect themselves. You can access the just released VDBIR 2023 for free at https://lnkd.in/g7Zs8qSC. A few of the highlights from the Summary of Findings: - Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks doubled from 2021 to 2022. These attacks now make up over half of all reported Social Engineering incidents. - The "human element" was identified as responsible for 74% of the known breaches in 2022. Whether it is our employees falling for social engineering attacks, misconfiguring systems or making other mistakes generally. And we ALL make mistakes. - External actors were responsible for 83% of the breaches identified in the report. I am always fascinated by the "internal" vs. "external" attacker so this number from the VDBIR always factors into that conversation. - More than likely not a surprise to anyone - 95% of known breaches were financially motivated. - To reinforce in our own cyber security programs, the three main methods used by attackers to gain access to companies was "stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilities." - Ransomware activity in known breaches roughly stayed the same between 2021 and 2022. With all of the news in the first half of this year so far on ransomware activity, it will be really interesting to see how the VDBIR looks next year! - Lo4j is never going away and presents more risk than a lot of organizations might realize. A sincere thank you to the VDBIR Team, including David Hylender, Philippe Langlois, Alex Pinto and Suzanne Widup and their partners for all of their efforts in protecting the world at large! #cybersecurity #icscybersecurity #otcybersecurity #vdbir #informationsecurity
April Halden
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Mike Holcomb I miss you! Great post
Malik Asad
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MUHAMMAD Junaid
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thankyou for sharing
Michael Lancaster
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Thanks for sharing
shame for verizon to not have all countries listed in form for download of report. it gives a bad first impression.