Using data from the Verizon DBIR and other sources, this report reviews the value of DNS in overall organizational security.

In 2018, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity partnered with ESI ThoughtLab, a thought leadership and economic research firm, to gather data on how more than 1,300 enterprises were responding to the challenge of managing cyber risk. The study launched in late 2018 with the ground-breaking report ‘The Cybersecurity Imperative’ and continues with this pulse update report based on the findings of a new sample of companies.

This third Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report provides you with an up-to-the-minute picture of the cyber readiness of organisations, as well as a blueprint for best practice in the fight to counter the ever-evolving cyber threat.

This report reveals findings around the cybersecurity landscape. To inform this report they surveyed ,3,200 security leaders asking questions in three categories, Set Up - how do you set yourself up for success, Architecture - what is your approach to vender/solution selection, and finally Breach Readiness and Response.

Law firm Clyde & Co and risk analytics platform Corax have collaborated to bring you a joint white paper identifying the key drivers of frequency and cost for cyber insurance claims. This paper moves beyond major breaches to examine the day to day breaches that most businesses are experiencing. Unlike other breach reports, this paper tracks each invoiced cost or loss amount associated with a covered breach event. Anonymized data was sourced from 321 data breach events where Clyde & Co acted as monitoring counsel for cyber insurer clients. The breach events were reported to insurers between 2014 and 2015. Files were selected randomly.

The Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study was created in conjunction with Cisco’s Annual Cybersecurity Benchmark Study, a double-blind survey completed by more than 3600 security professional in 25 countries and across all major industries. The privacy specific questions focused on a subset of nearly 3000 respondents who were familiar with the privacy processes at their organizations. Participants were asked about the makeup of their privacy teams, maturity level of their privacy processes, and the impact (if any) they experienced related to delays in the sales cycle due to customer data privacy concerns. We also analyzed responses to other questions regarding cyber events to understand which organizations had been breached in the last year and the size of any losses from these events.

The findings from this study provide strong evidence that organizations are benefitting from their privacy investments beyond compliance. Organizations that are ready for GDPR are experiencing shorter delays in their sales cycle related to customers’ data privacy concerns than those that are not ready for GDPR. GDPR-ready organizations have also experienced fewer data breaches, and when breaches have occurred, fewer records were impacted, and system downtime was shorter. As a result, the total cost of data breaches was less than what organizations not ready for GDPR experienced.

This report provides an international study of senior management attitudes to leadership development and executive education. It also provides insight into cybersecurity related issues.

This report provides new mindsets and methods for measuring and minimizing business risk.

Since June 2016, the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) has been working to accelerate adoption of DMARC, an email security standard, by providing a set of easy-to-use tools and campaigns to drive deployment. This paper investigates and measures the economic benefit from that work. Having reviewed the available data, we have chosen to focus on Business Email Compromise (BEC) because it is a rapidly growing issue, with high direct losses, and relevant data is available for analysis from multiple sources. We derive a conservative minimum bar estimate for the loss avoidance tied to GCA’s initiatives and discuss the potential scale of other benefits gained from DMARC.

This report is an annual Cyber Claims Study. It includes informative numerical and graphical descrip-tions of the types of data exposed, causes of loss, business sectors involved, sizes of affected organizations, insider involvement, and third party involvement. It also includes several new analyses: Cloud Involvement, Cyber Extortion/Ransomware, Phishing, Phishing and Wire Transfer Fraud, POS-Related/Common Point of Purchase/CPP Investigations.

BBR Services is on the front-lines of breach management and has attained a wealth of cyber expertise and knowledge of emerging trends. From this vantage point we have compiled the 2017 Beazley Breach Briefing, which is based on our 2016 data and provides our unique insight into key trends in data breach causes including factors that impact costs of data breaches.

IBM Security and Ponemon Institute are pleased to release the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview1. They conducted interviews with more than 2,200 IT, data protection, and compliance professionals from 477 companies that have experienced a data breach over the past 12 months. According to the findings, data breaches continue to be costlier and result in more consumer records being lost or stolen, year after year.

This paper seeks to help improve the IT situation in the Healthcare industry.

This global study examines 383 companies in 12 countries. It finds that $4 million is the average total cost of a data breach. It sees a 29% increase in total costs of data breaches since 2013. It finds that $158 is the average cost per lost or stolen record. Finally, there has been a 15% increase in per capita cost since 2013.

This year’s study examines the costs incurred by 62 U.S. companies in 16 industry sectors after those companies experienced the loss or theft of protected personal data and then had to notify breach victims as required by various laws. It is important to note the costs presented in this research are not hypothetical, but are from actual data loss incidents. They are based upon cost estimates provided by individuals, interviewed over a ten-month period in the companies that are represented in this research

Details research regarding the company Recorded Future. Shows how this company aided in the effeciency of dealing with cyber attacks and threats.

In this report, they examine two factors that affected the financial consequences of a data breach. The first is executive involvement in their organization’s IT security strategy and response to data breaches. The second is the purchase of cyber insurance to mitigate the cost of a data breach.

This is a useful article that takes a look at the financial numbers of paying for a defensive strategy vs. paying for a breach. Perfect for accountants, and those who need to understand data from a purely financial side.

This paper argues that the level of security in cyberspace is actually far better than the picture described by media accounts and IT security reports.

Based on the results of a survey, this paper looks at key trends and challenges facing North American businesses seeking to find the right balance and discusses some of the approaches and tools that are available to help you deal with cyber-based fraud management.