The 2024 Data Threat Report (DTR) analyzes how core security practices have changed in response to or in anticipation of changing threats. This report also offers perspectives on what organizations can do to leverage data assets to expand opportunities to make their businesses more agile and build trust with their customers. It analyzes global trends in threats to data and the underlying controls, regulations, risks and emerging technologies that need to be addressed.

The 2024 Data Threat Report (DTR) analyzes how core security practices have changed in response to or in anticipation of changing threats. This report also offers perspectives on what organizations can do to leverage data assets to expand opportunities to make their businesses more agile and build trust with their customers. This report also considers both securing the use of GenAI and using GenAI to better secure the enterprise. Differing priorities from different functional leaders and external stakeholders will require security and risk management leaders to build stronger relationships.

This report focuses specifically on data threats in the healthcare industry.

This report is based on a global IDC Web-based survey of 1,200 executives with responsibility for or influence over IT and data security. Respondents were from nine countries: Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, and the U.S., and represented a range of industries, with a primary emphasis on healthcare, financial services, retail, and federal government organizations. Job titles ranged from C-level executives including CEO, CFO, Chief Data Officer, CISO, Chief Data Scientist, and Chief Risk Officer, to SVP/VP, IT Administrator, Security Analyst, Security Engineer, and Systems Administrator. Respondents represented a broad range of organizational sizes, with the majority ranging from 500 to 10,000 employees

The purpose of this research is to examine how the use of encryption has evolved over the past 11 years and the impact of this technology on the security posture of organizations. The first encryption trends study was conducted in 2005 for a US sample of respondents.3 Since then we have expanded the scope of the research to include respondents in all regions of the world.

This report from 2017 is based on a survey conducted during October and November of 2016. They surveyed over a thousand senior security executives from across the globe, including from key regional markets in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico, and key segments such as federal government, retail, finance, and healthcare.