This report is broken into four different threat types: identity, cloud, computer-based, and phishing. Keep in mind, though, that these threats are tightly related. Compromise of user identities can occur through phishing and can impact an organization’s cloud assets and endpoints, or malicious activity on an endpoint may be indicative of an exploited vulnerability. We’ll highlight that interconnectivity throughout.

Expel commissioned CSA to develop a survey and report to understand better the industry’s knowledge, attitudes, and opinions regarding security’s relationship to innovation, outcomes of security-enabled innovation, and trends in cloud use. Expel financed the project and co-developed the questionnaire with CSA research analysts. The survey was conducted online by CSA in May of 2023 and received 1018 responses from IT and security professionals from organizations of various sizes and locations. CSA’s research analysts performed the data analysis and interpretation for this report.

This report, co-authored by our security operations center (SOC) leadership team, aggregates data from the incidents we investigated in 2022. It covers our full customer base, from small and midsize companies to enterprise organizations at every phase of the security journey across every industry we serve.

The report surfaces the most significant data we’re seeing in our threat detection and response effort, curates that data into trends that can impact your cybersecurity posture, and offers resilience recommendations to protect your organization.

These reports provide data and insights on the attack we’re seeing, how to spot them, and the top ways you can protect your organization. These trends are based on incidents our security operations center (SOC) identifies through investigations into alerts, emails submissions, and threat hunting leads in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022. We analyzed incidents across our customer base, spanning organizations of various shapes, sizes, and industries, from April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022.