This research aims to equip cloud security professionals, DevOps, DevSecOps, CISOs, and development leaders with valuable insights and practical recommendations for safeguarding their cloud environments, and in doing so, help to secure the cloud for everyone. In some ways, our study confirmed what is already widely known: attackers are constantly scanning the Internet for lucrative opportunities.

This report was compiled by analyzing data captured from billions of cloud assets on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud scanned by the Orca Cloud Security Platform. Leveraging unique insights into current and emerging cloud risks captured from the Orca Cloud Security Platform, this report reveals the most commonly found, yet dangerous, cloud security risks.

This iteration of the Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report provides a forward-thinking view of cloud security with intelligence on emerging threats and actionable recommendations from Google’s security experts. This report explores top cloud threats and security concerns for 2024, including credential abuse, crypto-mining, ransomware, and data theft.

Cyberattacks increased two or threefold across nearly every tracked metric in 2023, as cybercriminals continued to ramp up and diversify their attacks. To give the world’s defenders the actionable threat intelligence needed to safeguard against this relentless surge in cybercrime, we’ve compiled our research into the 2024 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report.

In this report, we bring you the insights from that data. It’s part of how we empower organizations to proactively navigate cyber risks, strengthen security approaches, and respond to incidents with unmatched efficiency. This report helps because it gathers real-world information from organizations like yours, so you can learn which threats really a#ect your peers–and how you can face them.

Our respondents were asked to open up about the challenges they’ve faced while securing their digital enterprises over the past year. We are at a critical juncture in digital transformation. The distributed workforce is now the norm, and companies must support remote productivity of which cloud will play a key role. This requires leaders to plan security for hybrid infrastructure – a distinct departure from the inherited on-premises strategies of most organizations. That’s why there is a lot to learn from this year’s temperature check on the industry.

2024 is poised to be a hotbed for new challenges in cybersecurity. As both economic and political terrains continue to undergo digitization, enterprises will increasingly leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), the cloud, and Web3 technologies. While these innovations are expected to lend a hand to organizations, they also provide opportunities for cybercriminals by promising big returns, more streamlined operations on wider impact zones, and more targeted victims. In this report, we detail the focal points of next year’s threat landscape, along with insights and recommended mitigation measures from our team of cybersecurity experts that are designed to guide decision-makers toward well-informed choices.

The Sysdig 2024 Cloud‑Native Security and Usage Report comes at an exciting time after a year of cybersecurity making headlines worldwide. This is indicative of how broad the security landscape has grown in a short amount of time, thanks to the cloud. This report looks at real‑world data to draw conclusions about the state of cloud security. From our perspective, we see that organizations continue to struggle with the shift‑left concept. Although runtime threat prioritization has greatly reduced vulnerabilities, there remains an urgency for powerful and speedy cloud threat detection and response (TDR).

CompTIA’s 2024 State of Cybersecurity report explores the many variables that must be considered in balancing the cybersecurity equation. As cybersecurity becomes a critical business imperative, every process must be scrutinized for potential vulnerabilities. This practice of risk analysis then drives decisions around workflow, skill-building and technology implementation. With technology trends evolving and attack patterns changing, true equilibrium is impossible to achieve. The balancing act is a full-time job.

By leveraging its huge user dataset, Hornet security is uniquely positioned to conduct a detailed examination of email-based threats and distill this into important insights for IT security professionals. Email continues to be an essential communication channel. However, in our analysis of more than 45 billion emails, 36.4% are categorized as “unwanted.” 96.4% of unwanted emails are spam or rejected outright due to external indicators, and just over 3.6% were flagged as malicious.

The Cyber Security Report (formerly Cyber Threat Report) is an annual analysis of the current cyber threat landscape based on real-world data collected and studied by Hornet security’s dedicated Security Lab team. Hornet security processes more than two billion emails every month. By analyzing the threats identified in these communications, combined with a detailed knowledge of the wider threat landscape, the Security Lab reveals major trends and can make informed projections for the future of Microsoft 365 security threats, enabling businesses to act accordingly. Those findings and data are contained within this report.

The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2022 reveals that both the frequency and cost of cyber attacks are rising for US businesses, and the pandemic is continuing to have lasting effects on the cyber security landscape. While the US remains a global leader in cyber maturity, they are also most likely to pay a cyber-related ransom. To gauge businesses’ preparedness to combat cyber incidents and breaches, Hiscox surveyed over 5,000 professionals responsible for their company’s cyber security from the US, UK, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. This includes key findings from over 900 professionals from the US.

The 2023 State of Web Application Security Report investigates the evolving security practices, tools, and technologies employed by organizations worldwide to enhance file upload security. 97% of survey participants reported using containers in environments that host web applications. Additionally, web applications that accept file uploads are increasingly being hosted on cloud-based platforms, including both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions

The Threat Horizons Report will continue to highlight advanced threats to the cloud, sophisticated attack campaigns, and novel techniques used to target victims in the cloud. By focusing on good cloud hygiene, defenders will raise the bar necessary for attackers to be successful while reducing the risk of becoming a victim to a common attack.

Increasingly dynamic cloud environments are presenting visibility challenges for security. Indeed, the majority of organizations claim that lack of access to physical networks, the dynamic nature of cloud-native applications, and elastic cloud infrastructure create blind spots, making security monitoring challenging. SOC teams need to address this cloud visibility gap by collecting, processing, monitoring, and acting upon information from an assortment of cloud security telemetry sources.

This year, we delve deeper into web entities, or content served over HTTP – think websites, web-based control panels, load balancers, and even APIs. Web entities have become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, enabling us to shop, read the news, and stay in touch with loved ones. Our goal is to share our findings and analysis with the community to provide a deeper understanding of the complexities of the internet. We hope that readers can use these findings to enhance their understanding of the services that comprise the web and make more informed decisions about how to safeguard their digital assets.

CDW Canada’s 2023 Canadian Hybrid Cloud Report, our latest annual survey with IDC, to learn how organizations are transforming into a digital business, adopting cloud platforms, deploying hybrid and multicloud solutions. You’ll also find out what are the top business objectives shaping digital infrastructure strategies in Canada.

This year’s research explored three key outcomes and the capabilities that contribute to achieving those outcomes: Organizational performance, team performance and employee well-being. The research also explored means or performance measures that we often talk about like ends-in-themselves: software delivery performance and operational performance.

The 2023 Elastic Global Threat Report is a summary of more than a billion data points distilled down to a small number of distinct categories. We describe the tools, tactics, and procedures of threats from the perspective of endpoints and cloud infrastructure — the most common enterprise attack surfaces — so readers with varying priorities can determine the best course of action to take next.

The objective with this research was to gather the perspectives and priorities of global IT leaders who are considering leveraging cybersecurity best practices to spur growth in their organizations. Through the survey, we were able to pinpoint areas of investment, operational challenges and potential threats while gauging an outlook on the future.

The annual Cybersecurity considerations report identifies eight considerations that CISOs should prioritize in the year ahead as they seek to accelerate recovery times, reduce the impact of incidents on employees, customers and partners and aim to ensure their security plans enable — rather than expose — the business. The report also explores the key actions CISOs should take to meet the challenges ahead and to help ensure security is the organization’s golden thread, woven into the business across the board — providing the basis for trust.