This year’s study examines the costs incurred by 62 U.S. companies in 16 industry sectors after those companies experienced the loss or theft of protected personal data and then had to notify breach victims as required by various laws. It is important to note the costs presented in this research are not hypothetical, but are from actual data loss incidents. They are based upon cost estimates provided by individuals, interviewed over a ten-month period in the companies that are represented in this research

In this report, they examine two factors that affected the financial consequences of a data breach. The first is executive involvement in their organization’s IT security strategy and response to data breaches. The second is the purchase of cyber insurance to mitigate the cost of a data breach.

This report discusses information gleaned from the notable highlights in cyber threats during the year 2015. It studies notable incidents and targeted malware affecting geographies including Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey and Japan. It also discusses the barriers that must be overcome in order to prevent cyber attacks from occurring.

In this report, IBM culled the data collected between 01 January 2017 and 31 December 2017, to deliver insightful information about the global threat landscape and apprise security professionals about the threats most relevant to their organizations.

The Threat Intelligence Index outlines the security threat landscape based on data gathered for the entire year of 2016. It uses data developed by analyzing “billions" of events, monitored by IBM security services, in more than 100 countries.

This paper provides a complete roundup of cyber incidents in 2014.

This paper offers insight into smart cities and the dangers of exposed devices on the network.