Against the backdrop of mounting threat in an era of disruption, the most forward-thinking cybersecurity functions can be critical agents of change. But this will require organizations to foster new relationships between CISOs, the board and C-suite, and every function of the business.

As more organizations move to the cloud and public cloud platforms gain more users and offer more services, cybercriminals will find ways to launch attacks and profit from compromise. As we’ve demonstrated in this research, misconfiguration in cloud services opens an organization to risks like cryptojacking, e-skimming, and data exfiltration. Container technologies in the cloud, when exposed, also pose similar risks. Finally, mismanagement of credentials and other secrets have costs that can grow as threats move across the cloud stack.

CyberEdge’s annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) plays a unique role in the IT security industry. Other surveys do a great job of collecting statistics on cyberattacks and data breaches and exploring the techniques of cybercriminals and other bad actors. Our mission is the provide deep insight into the minds of IT security professionals.

Akamai’s annual overview of security traffic trends for 2019.

In this report, we explore the state of OT security from the perspective of IT security practitioners, and provide practical recommendations on how to bridge the IT and OT cybersecurity gap. This report also examines the to OT security.

The number of companies purchasing cyber insurance continued to increase in 2019, driven by growing recognition of cyber threats as a critical business risk and appreciation for cyber insurance’s role in mitigating its economic impact.

This report encourages market participants to review their practices, policies and procedures with respect to cybersecurity and operational resiliency. It states that assessing your level of preparedness and implementing some or all of the above measures will make your organization more secure. OCIE will continue to focus on working with organizations to identify and address cybersecurity risks and encourages market participants to actively engage regulators and law enforcement in this effort.

In our 3rd annual Global Password Security Report, we strive to share interestingand helpful insights into employee password behavior at businesses around theworld. We want to help IT and security professionals understand the greatestobstacles employees face when it comes to passwords, learn how to addresschallenges of managing and securing data in today’s digital workplace and enablethem to see how their businesses’ password security practices measure up. Thisyear, we’re bringing even more data points to the table.

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the 2020 Cost of Insider Threats: Global study. Sponsored by ObserveIT and IBM, this is the third benchmark study conducted to understand the direct and indirect costs that result from insider threats.

This report by Cisco contains 20 predictions for the future of cybersecurity.

In this, our launch issue of CyberTheory, we will explore the current and future state of cybersecurity, the key issues driving the shift in the corporate board room perception of cyber-risk and add substantive analysis to what we believe are the most engaging topics in the space.

Gemalto outlines changes to threats in 2017, including data from incidents in the year.

In early 2017, SolarWinds MSP investigated the cybersecurity preparedness, experiences, and failings of 400 SMBs and enterprises, split equally across the UK and the US. While 87% of organizations have complete trust in their security techniques and technology—and 59% believe they are less vulnerable than they were 12 months previously—71% of those same organizations have been breached in the past 12 months. The belief that “it will never happen to us” simply doesn’t hold true.

Using survey data from 2,500 security professionals who indicated they have some measure of privacy responsibilities, this report provides analysis on the ROI for privacy efforts, maturity of privacy programs, vendor selection, and other topics.

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the second study on vulnerabilityand patch management. As shown inthis research, the severity and volume ofcyberattacks is increasing. However, mostorganizations are not comparably enhancingtheir abilities to prevent hackers fromexploiting attack vectors. In fact, it’s takinglonger to detect and longer to patch criticalvulnerabilities than last year. The cost andconsequences of this failure are myriad.

A focused subset of Cisco’s 2018 full Cyber Security Report, focusing on cloud security practices.

The Worldwide Security Spending Guide examines the security opportunity from a technology, industry, company size, and geography perspective. This comprehensive database delivered via IDC’s Customer Insights query tool allows the user to easily extract meaningful information about the security technology market by viewing data trends and relationships and making data comparisons.

In our 25-criterion evaluation of data security portfolio providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Dell, Digital Guardian, Forcepoint, Google, GTB Technologies, IBM, Imperva, McAfee, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, and Varonis — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps security and risk (S&R) professionals understand the respective strengths of each vendor’s portfolio.

A survey-based review of how and why organizations are adopting cloud technologies, specifically from a business growth perspective. Makes some specific recommendations and has discussion on CASB solutions.

A survey-based report with findings in four major areas: current security posture, perceptions and concerns, current and future investments, and practices and strategies.

This is a survey conducted by Cisco, mainly talking about their findings that people care about privacy, and a surprisingly large number have already taken actions to protect it.