This report delves into the depths of cyber risk management, unearthing the critical coverage gaps that threaten organizational stability in the wake of cyberattacks. In an era where digital threats loom larger than ever, businesses are increasingly turning to cyber insurance as a safeguard against the financial ravages of data breaches. Yet CYE’s study leveraging external and internal datasets reveals a stark reality: the protection afforded by such insurance may fall significantly short of the actual costs incurred during cyber incidents.

In this year’s Hacker-Powered Security Report: Financial Services, we look at what drives ethical hackers, where they focus their energies, and what they’re doing to help financial services companies improve their security profile. In the past year, the hacking community has found over 65,000 customer vulnerabilities. Financial services continues to be among the most popular industries for ethical hackers to work on, and vulnerabilities in web applications are by far the most commonly reported issues in the industry

The Arctic Wolf State of Cybersecurity: 2024 Trends Report took the temperature of organizations around the globe and sought to understand how they were responding to these areas of challenge. Our research revealed that ransomware continues to be a perennial area of concern. For the third year in a row, ransomware ranked as the top concern for respondents. This concern is not without merit when we consider that 45% of the organizations we spoke with admitted to being the victim of a ransomware attack within the last 12 months, a 3% increase over last year.

By publishing this report, we aim to show the greater business community what has led us to this point and what can be done to reduce the risk that has resulted from this complexity. In 2023, ransomware frequency increased by 64% overall when compared to 2022, mostly driven by a 415% increase in indirect ransomware.

Based on a survey of 647 IT professionals and cybersecurity experts, this report explores the multifaceted security and user experience challenges of VPNs to reveal the complexity of today’s access management, vulnerabilities to various cyberattacks, and their potential to impair organizations’ broader security posture. The report also outlines more advanced security models, particularly zero trust, which has firmly established itself as a robust and future-proof framework to secure and accelerate digital transformation.

This report presents key insights drawn from hundreds of thousands of attack path assessments conducted through the XM Cyber Continuous Exposure Management (CEM) platform during 2023. These assessments uncovered over 40 million exposures affecting 11.5 million entities deemed critical to business operations. Data gathered from the XM Cyber platform were anonymized and provided to Cyentia Institute for independent analysis to generate the insights.

This year, the report is delving deeper into the pathway to breaches in an effort to identify the most likely Action and vector groupings that lead to breaches given the current threat landscape. The cracked doorway on the cover is meant to represent the various ways attackers can make their way inside. The opening in the door shows the pattern of our combined “ways-in” percentages, and it lets out a band of light displaying a pattern of the Action vector quantities. The inner cover highlights and labels the quantities in a less abstract way.

In the M-Trends 2024 report it features data and other security metrics that readers have come to expect, highlights zero-day use by espionage and financially-motivated attackers, and dives deep into evasive actions conducted particularly by Chinese espionage groups. we share our learnings with the greater security community, building on our dedication to providing critical knowledge to those tasked with defending organizations. The information in this report has been sanitized to protect the identities of victims and their data.

The Edgescan Vulnerability Stats Report aims to demonstrate the state of full stack security based on thousands of security assessments performed globally, as delivered by the Edgescan SaaS during 2020. This report has also become a reliable source for representing the global state of cyber security vulnerability management.

Protecting trusted insiders (and the assets and systems they are entrusted with) against foreign influence is the ‘how to’ conversation to be having and solution to be driving for. This report is not just a platform for understanding the insider risk landscape. It is an invitation to uplift collaboration and best-practice information sharing with trusted allies to fortify the protective security resilience of our most missions critical agencies and entities.

The Flashpoint 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report offers a critical examination of the current threat environment. This year’s analysis goes beyond traditional threat intelligence, incorporating Flashpoint’s unparalleled data and insights to shed light on cyber threats, geopolitical turmoil, and escalating physical conflicts around the world. The goal: help your organization to strengthen its defenses, ensure operational resilience, and proactively confront multifaceted threats—thereby safeguarding critical assets, preventing financial losses, and protecting lives.

In the 2024 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report, TransUnion brings together trends, benchmarks, and identity and fraud expertise from across our organization. It provides insight to those responsible for preventing fraud and streamlining customer experiences to deliver better business outcomes. Use this report to evaluate current fraud prevention programs in the context of the broader market.

The report sheds light on the sectors most at risk, with technical services vendors leading the breach statistics for the fourth consecutive year. Despite this, a silver lining emerges as a significant portion of these vendors demonstrated improvements in their cyber ratings postbreach. The healthcare sector continues to bear the brunt of these incidents, reinforcing the need for heightened security measures within this critical industry.

The 2024 Cybersecurity Risk Report from the FAIR Institute shows broadly positive trends compared to last year’s survey. At the FAIR Institute, they believe that effective cyber risk management can only be achieved through transparent and defensible risk analysis using a standard such as FAIR and quality cyber risk data.

This report sets itself apart with our proprietary data and insights derived from comprehensive detection coverage coupled with human-led expert investigation and confirmation of threats. The data that powers Deepwatch results from thousands of expert investigations across hundreds of thousands of protected systems. This report examines the broader landscape of threats that leverage techniques and other tradecraft. We also track specific threats associating malicious or suspicious activity with a new or existing threat activity cluster, specific malware variants, abuse of legitimate tools, and known threat actors. ATI continually tracks and analyzes threats throughout the year, publishing weekly threat intelligence reports.

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.

In this report, we explore the big names in ransomware, the most frequently targeted sectors, trends in data exfiltration, and which malware and tools are leveraged by ransomware operators. This data creates insights into how organizations can better protect their environments from cyberattacks. The 2023 threat landscape was characterized by a combination of mainstay threat actors and new or reemerging groups. While top variants continue evolving to maintain dominance, the widespread impact of newer groups demonstrates the constant evolution of today’s threats and the need for adaptable defenses and increased cyber resilience.

This report focuses primarily on hundreds of digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) engagements conducted by the Arctic Wolf Incident Response team. The vast majority of these engagements were initiated as part of cyber insurance policies, through our partnerships with insurance providers and privacy law practitioners.

The 2024 edition of the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report arrives at a pivotal moment for our global community of protectors. The speed and ferocity of cyberattacks continue to accelerate as adversaries compress the time between initial entry, lateral movement and breach. At the same time, the rise of generative AI has the potential to lower the barrier of entry for low-skilled adversaries, making it easier to launch attacks that are more sophisticated and state of the art. These trends are driving a tectonic shift in the security landscape and the world.

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.

In this year’s report, 500 U.S.-based ITOps professionals express how automation increases their IT agility –reducing costs and enhancing endpoint management capabilities. The report also reveals that less than half (44%) of organizations have high ITOps agility, with the most agile showing mature uses of AI and workflow automation tools.