This year’s report introduces results from the Attack Path Validation (APV) and Detection Rule Validation (DRV) products on the Picus platform, offering deeper observations into organizational preparedness against automated penetration tests and the effectiveness of detection rules in SIEM systems. It provides perspective into the current state of cybersecurity and recommends Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for those working to adopt a holistic approach.

The 2024 edition of the Blue Report provides key findings and practical recommendations for cybersecurity professionals by evaluating the effectiveness of current detection and prevention practices. The Blue Report 2024 serves as a crucial resource for cybersecurity professionals and decision-makers. It provides perspective into the current state of cybersecurity and recommends Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for those working to adopt a holistic approach.

This report nearly coincided with one of the most disruptive cyber attacks in the history of healthcare. The massive payment disruptions for U.S. healthcare providers resulting from the February 2024 BlackCat ransomware attack on Change Healthcare was an extreme yet highly illustrative example of the third-party risks stemming from high interdependence among healthcare organizations. This paper aims to help healthcare organizations and their partners reduce such risks.

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.

SecurityScorecard researchers identified not only a pool of 150 top vendors – based on their detectable market share of products and customers – but also a subset of 15 “heavy hitters” with an even higher market share concentration. In today’s interconnected world, concentrated cyber risk threatens national security and global economies. Much like a precarious house perched on a cliff’s edge, the reliance on a handful of vendors shapes the foundation of our global economy.

We chose to analyze four recent ransomware attacks. These ransomware attacks resulted in significant business disruption and financial impact, and in some cases, continue to result in collateral damage. While details are often sparse on how the attacks happened, the nature of the attack can be examined to determine the degree to which basic ransomware controls impact organizational outcomes. Many ransomware attacks are not technically sophisticated, but instead take advantage of controllable gaps and lapses that organizations do not actively seek to identify and remediate.

This Index provides a comprehensive view of what organizations need to be ready to tackle the security challenges of the modern world, and more importantly where companies across the globe are lacking. It provides a detailed point of reference and serves as a guide on what organizations need to do to improve their cybersecurity resilience.

This report presents multiple segments detailing various key aspects of major mass exploitations of 2023. We encourage you to view the year through the perspective of a defender, say on a security operations (SOC) team, with limitless access to GreyNoise data. From this vantage point, see how 2023 might have appeared if you had utilized our datasets* to remain at the forefront of thwarting widespread internet exploits.

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.

In the wake of the Change Healthcare incident, companies are doubling down on efforts to bolster supplier oversight and cybersecurity measures. Every organization must scrutinize its data security practices, assess third- and fourth-party access to sensitive data, and identify critical vendors essential to revenue.

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.

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 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.

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.

Our survey results revealed that more companies than ever are viewing GRC as a holistic process and taking steps toward getting a complete view of their risk environment and regulatory obligations. Centralizing strategy, unifying risk and compliance data, and revamping the approach to cybersecurity are becoming more popular strategic objectives among respondents, especially with the rise of AI technology dismantling barriers and fostering collaboration among various GRC functions. This means the criteria for which GRC technology is being evaluated against in the purchase cycle is rapidly expanding.

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.