The goal of this report is to offer a view on the state of compliance in today’s typical organization, including: the rate of noncompliance among a typical organization’s assets, the compliance standards that are hardest for organizations to adhere to, how well compliance tracks against the overall risk surface and the most common security controls causing non-compliance. (more available)

In this report, we’ve analyzed on-the-ground evidence collected while responding to nearly 1,500 ransomware events exceeding $1 billion in ransom demands. (more available)

This study leverages a vast dataset spanning over 77,000 cyber events experienced by 35,000 organizations over the last decade. This dataset is drawn from Advisen’s Cyber Loss Data, which contains over 138,000 cyber events collected from publicly verifiable sources. (more available)

This report provides an analysis of the DNS queries blocked by Protective DNS, finds commonalities among the end users that are protected, and uses a financial model to estimate the value of the threat prevention provided by Protective DNS to the UK economy. (more available)

This free public report from the Cyentia IRIS Risk Retina series clears away the fog of FUD, providing parameters for frequency and loss of publicly discoverable cyberevents in the nonprofit sector. (more available)

A deep dive into the profiles of workforce members, identifying the characteristics of greater and less cyberrisk.

This report looks at the entire history of active applications, not just the activity associated with the application over one year. (more available)

We do two very important and timely things in this report. We first explore ways to measure exploitability for individual vulnerabilities—and far more importantly—entire organizations. (more available)

Over 5,100 IT and security professionals across 27 countries were asked about their organizations’ approaches to updating and integrating security architecture, detecting and responding to threats, and staying resilient when disaster strikes. (more available)

We identified 50 of the largest multi-party cyber incidents over the past several years in an effort to understand their causes and consequences from beginning to end. (more available)

A continued look at “ripple events” - multi-party security events - examining the size and frequency of these events, firmographics, as well as the velocity of spread of such events. (more available)

A meta-analysis of industry reports on the variety and forms of application exploits used in security incidents.

Get best practices on managing your open source libraries in our State of Software Security v11: Open Source Edition report. Based on 13 million scans of more than 86,000 repositories, SOSS v11: Open Source Edition gives you a unique perspective on the open source libraries in codebases today, how organizations are managing the security of these libraries, and best practices on using open source code securely. (more available)

Endpoint security is the last line of defense. Now more than ever, effective endpoint protection is essential to the success of any cybersecurity program. (more available)

Do exploit code releases help or harm defenders? We decided to put this hotly contested debate to the test. The seventh volume of the Prioritization to Prediction series produced in conjunction with the Cyentia Institute attacks this debate from all angles. (more available)

Every year, enterprises spend millions on security technology and training — only to be caught on the hamster wheel of responding to incidents caused by recurrent human errors. (more available)

Using RiskRecon’s assessment information, explanatory models are built to demonstrate the value of technical information in predicting measures of risk at varying levels of greater technical insight. (more available)

What makes for successful cybersecurity? Is there evidence that security investments result in measurable outcomes? How do we know what actually works and what doesn’t? (more available)

An analysis on the indicators to be derived from detecting Internet of Things (IoT) in organization’s public internet facing profiles.

A deep dive into the nature of the finance sector’s public risk surface. Reviewing subsectors of the finance ecosystem, including supply chains. (more available)

Based on a survey of over 4,800, this report reviews the practices that lead to positive outcomes for security programs. Linking together practices that are more (or less) successful to the characteristics of positive outcomes, this report aims to give guidance for where practitioners can focus their efforts to achieve similar outcomes. (more available)