This is the first published study in this field to include SPoF (Single Point of Failure) data, which highlights the dependencies a company has on third-party systems and services. This paper represents a snapshot of our ongoing work exploring what is a deep and highly complex dataset.

The Permiso Security State of Identity Security Report (2024) offers a comprehensive analysis of cloud identity and access management practices across global organizations. This study, encompassing over 500 entities, unveils critical trends and challenges shaping the future of identity security. 93% of organizations can inventory identities across all environments, as well as track keys, tokens, certificates and any modifications that are made to any environment.

At Gallagher Re, we have been exploring this data’s vast potential for several years. This research has informed the development of a suite of proprietary tools and services aimed at supporting the (re)insurance community in realising the potential of cyber data to enhance underwriting and portfolio monitoring. Principal among these is TIDE, our portfolio quality and benchmarking tool.

This report focuses on the security of deployed AI models in cloud services and environments. Our research indicates that more than half of organizations have adopted AI models for custom applications. More than half of organizations are deploying their own AI models. Default AI settings are often accepted without regard for security.

Non-human identities (NHIs) such as bots, API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and secrets are indispensable for automating tasks, enhancing efficiency, and driving innovation within organizations. The survey provides insights into their opinions about their current NHI security, the obstacles they’re facing, and the strategies and tools they’re using. The aim is to shed light on the current state of NHI security and identify areas for improvement.

This report comes at a time when top organizational risks, such as supply chain, cybersecurity, and third-party risks cut across large parts of all organizations. Stopping supply chain attacks requires understanding their causes and the variables that contribute to them. SecurityScorecard threat researchers assist in that effort by helping organizations gauge their overall risk levels and set priorities for vendor vetting.

Based on that data and Sophos threat research, we see that ransomware continues to have the greatest impact on smaller organizations. But other threats also pose an existential threat to small businesses. Data theft is the focus of most malware targeting small and medium businesses—password stealers, keyboard loggers, and other spyware made up nearly half of malware detections. Email attacks have begun to move away from simple social engineering toward more active engagement with targets over email, using a thread of emails and responses to make their lures more convincing.

The report explores the thinking of 750 global cloud decision-makers and users about the public, private and multi-cloud market. It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing year-over-year (YoY) changes to help identify trends. And it offers perspective on how some trends have changed over the years. The survey began in the first quarter of 2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak spreading outside of China.

This tenth annual Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report (previously known as the RightScale State of the Cloud Report) delves into the details of what respondents had to say to reveal what’s happening with all things cloud—from spend allocation to cost management to strategies. Leveraging this data can help IT professionals plan the next steps of their cloud journey. The report explores the thinking of 750 global cloud decision-makers and users about the public, private and multi-cloud market. It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing year-over-year (YoY) changes to help identify trends.

The survey tapped 750 IT professionals and executive leaders worldwide representing a broad cross-section of industries and context areas in the winter of 2022. Flexera sources participants from an independent panel that is rigorously maintained and is comprised of vetted respondents with detailed profiles. At numerous points throughout the report, we’ve provided our own interpretation of the data as Flexera Points of View.

That is the purpose of this report is to show you the hours saved, the data aggregated, and the research methodologies laid bare. you’ll find several sections covering some of the bigger mass exploitations of 2022, also known as celebrity vulnerabilities.

The target population was reached through in-person events, and by third parties via their opt-in email lists, Genetec opt-in email lists, and by digital promotions. This report points out whether answers are from all respondents, end user respondents, or channel partner respondents.

CISA created the KEV catalog in part because of challenges that organizations have historically faced in prioritizing vulnerabilities. In any given year, there are tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities. But according to CISA, a study of historical vulnerability data dating back to 2019 shows that less than 4% of all known vulnerabilities were being used by attackers in the wild.

This survey conducted by Aviatrix explores the trends impacting global cloud, networking, and security practitioners, and how they’re impacting the bottom line for enterprises worldwide. This report will look more closely at the causes and impacts of these findings, as well as recommendations for improving enterprise and industry outcomes in the future.

This paper explores the benefits of counterfactual analysis for cyber (re)insurers and provides a framework that can help exposure risk managers, actuaries, and catastrophe modelers incorporate it into their standard suite of risk assessment tools. The paper also contains some worked examples of cyber counterfactual analysis that Gallagher Re has conducted in collaboration with CyberCube.

The report stated that “Equifax lacked a comprehensive IT asset inventory, meaning it lacked a complete understanding of the assets it owned. This made it difficult, if not impossible, for Equifax to know if vulnerabilities existed on its networks. If a vulnerability cannot be found, it cannot be patched.” The Equifax case is one example of an existential and underreported cybersecurity issue: the vast majority of organizations do not have comprehensive visibility of every asset they need to secure.

In our third State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface report, we continue to see enterprises struggle with many of the same issues they’ve been grappling with—they are blind to IT assets missing endpoint protection, patch management, and, as we now include in this report, vulnerability management. “Stale” IT assets continue to proliferate across corporate networks. Organizations are unnecessarily paying for unused licenses while facing budget cuts and economic challenges.

This new study makes it clear that enterprise demands have certainly continued to grow since then. Organizations place greater strategic priority on TPRM to contribute to a widening scope of enterprise risk that extends beyond cybersecurity. It’s also clear from these results that supply chains are expanding as is the need to efficiently assess risk across those business relationships. Respondents tell us they’re increasingly relying on automated assessments and risk ratings to meet that demand.

In our 11th annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, we looked more broadly than ever before at trends and data on a global scale as data breaches have no borders. This, along with the fact that nationstate-sponsored gangs and attacks are becoming increasingly more strategic and purposeful due to political conflicts or interests, made it fitting to expand our lens. Our predictions come from Experian’s long history of helping companies navigate breaches over the past 21 years. Here’s where we expect to see some hard to believe, but possible developments in the world of data security incidents in 2024.

To help businesses measure cyber attack readiness, we analyzed performance data from the 982 corporate security teams and 5,117 professionals who participated in our global CTF competition. HTB Business CTF: The Great Escape featured over 30 hacking challenges based on the live threat landscape covering areas such as forensics, blockchain, cloud, and more.

This report helps uncover vulnerabilities missed by traditional security tools and detect unnoticed malicious activities. To understand how security professionals utilize threat hunting, we surveyed 218 security analysts to identify effective strategies, challenges, and metrics for success.