Cloud is the center of IT and increasingly, the foundation for cyber security. Understanding how threat vectors are shifting in cloud is fundamental to making the necessary updates to your security program and strategy. Symantec’s CSTR shines a light on how to secure the digitally transformed, virtual organization of today and tomorrow.

This annual report from Symantec offers insights into formjacking, cryptojacking, ransomware, supply chain attacks, targeted attacks, the cloud, IoT, and even discusses Election Interference. As always the facts and figures are intriguing. Read on!

This research provides a thorough analysis of the practice of spectral clustering.

This report from Symantec gives a variety of information about ransomware. It gives an overview, discusses the factors driving the growth and persistence of ransomware, infection vectors, platforms affected, the major ransomware families and finally, how businesses are going to be impacted.

This special report takes a specific look at Ransomware.

This special report examines threats to the financial sector.

This special report analyzes Email and the threats that occur in that environment.

Symantec has established the largest civilian threat collection network in the world, and through that has developed the Symantec Global Intelligence Network. Through that development comes this report based on their experiences in 2016.

This paper explores threats like coin-mining attcks, spike in software supply-chain attacks, the ransomware business, the drop in zero days, and the rise in mobile malware.

This research takes a look at mining visual graphs and analyzes the value of that activity.

This report details 6 key findings from Symantec’s breakdown of the security issues of 2016.

This report will explore the requirements and challenges of creating a secure, reliable and resilient smart city. It will consider how administrations and the overall city ecosystems will need to provide innovative, resilient ‘smart’ solutions that leverage digital information while protecting against malicious violations, unintentional damage and natural disasters.

The 2015 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) provides an overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity. (aggregating and collecting data collected from Symantec devices and customers)

This report takes a look at the Waterbug Attack Group and their impact in 2016.

This is the Government focussed version of the annual 2017 Security Threat Report from Symantec.

This report takes a look at how the ransomware types work, not just from a technological point of view but also from a psychological viewpoint. They also look at how these threats evolved, what factors are at play to make ransomware the major problem that it is today, and where ransomware is likely to surface next.

The Shadow Data Report published by Elastica CloudThreat Labs, addresses key trends and challenges facedby enterprises securing data stored and shared via cloudapps and services.

This report examines the weaknesses in Apple products and the growing trend of attacks on the Apple system.

System designers have long struggled with the challenge of determining how to control when untrusted applica- tions may perform operations using privacy-sensitive sen- sors securely and effectively. Current systems request that users authorize such operations once (i.e., on install or first use), but malicious applications may abuse such authorizations to collect data stealthily using such sensors. Proposed research methods enable systems to infer the op- erations associated with user input events, but malicious applications may still trick users into allowing unexpected, stealthy operations. To prevent users from being tricked, we propose to bind applications’ operation requests to the associated user input events and how they were ob- tained explicitly, enabling users to authorize operations on privacy-sensitive sensors unambiguously and reuse such authorizations.

The Internet of Things is becoming and area of danger for security risks. This paper discusses the cyber security issues related to the internet of things, and discusses how people should be taking action to protect their devices.

This special report brought to you by the folks at Symantec, takes a hard look at the security issues that surround smart speakers.