In this report, we explore for you the emerging trends and predictions that shape the future of enterprise IT and Security. From the global implications of the cybercrime convention to the pitfalls of failed AI projects, the insights we offer will help you prepare for what’s ahead.

The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report is the industry’s preeminent source on adversary intelligence, examining the emerging adversary trends of the past year. The purpose of this report is to arm you, the world’s security professionals and dedicated cyber defenders, with the knowledge you need to keep a step ahead of these threat actors — and to never, ever underestimate them.

The IR case data is augmented with telemetry from the Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform and research from our threat intelligence team, digital forensics experts, incident responders, and professional ransomware negotiators. The vast majority of these IR engagements were initiated as part of cyber insurance policies, through our partnerships with insurance providers and privacy law practitioners. While cyber insurance is a valuable risk transfer option for any organization, it’s important to recognize that certain industries are more likely to have coverage than others, and that our sample cases will reflect this distribution.

The threat landscape is dynamic and reactive — a new technique empowers a previously unknown threat group, vendors swarm to mitigate that threat and create new technologies in the process, operators on both sides seek out new techniques or tools, and so it goes. Elastic Security provides mechanisms to detect and mitigate malware on all major desktop operating systems (OS). For these purposes, malware is any software developed to facilitate adversary actions, disrupt legitimate activities, or otherwise cause harm to a computer or network.

The findings provide insights into the current state of security for web-based applications and systems, and the potential impact of security vulnerabilities on business operations in high-risk sectors. The report examines how DAST offers a crucial complement to other security testing methods, such as static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), and provides a unique perspective on application security by mimicking real-world attack scenarios.

The Salt Security State of API Security Report for this year has brought to light an urgent need for action, as the usage of APIs has skyrocketed and security breaches have become more commonplace. Organizations are now managing more APIs than ever before, with 66% of them managing over 100. As a result, there has been a staggering increase in API security breaches, with incidents more than doubling in the past year (37% of respondents experienced incidents).

The 2024 Cybersecurity Threat Report aims to be a crucial resource for CISOs, CIOs, and security leaders seeking to navigate this complex environment. By analyzing billions of threat data points collected across our vast customer base, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the current threat landscape and offer actionable insights for strengthening organizations’ cybersecurity postures.

The Permiso Security State of Identity Security Report (2024) offers a comprehensive analysis of cloud identity and access management practices across global organizations. This study, encompassing over 500 entities, unveils critical trends and challenges shaping the future of identity security. 93% of organizations can inventory identities across all environments, as well as track keys, tokens, certificates and any modifications that are made to any environment.

This report seized the opportunity to do something different; it now focuses on highlighting what’s next for the hacking community. From neurodiversity in the hacking community to the rise of hacking influencer platforms, we’ve examined a broad spectrum of important topics. Now, most security professionals not only understand the difference between threat actors and hackers, but they actually have personal experience with ethical hacking.

In this report, CrowdStrike OverWatch threat hunters distilled their findings into hundreds of new behavior-based preventions over the past 12 months. As a result, the team’s front-line findings directly augment the Falcon platform’s ability to detect and prevent the latest threats. This data specifically focuses on interactive intrusions — attacks where adversaries establish an active presence within a target network, often engaging in hands-on-keyboard activities to achieve their objectives.

In today’s dynamic threat landscape, our customers rely on us more than ever to protect their sensitive data, systems and operations from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. From ransomware attacks to malware to crypto-jacking, the adversaries we confront are relentless and evolving, requiring us to be continuously vigilant and proactive. we’ve added some new perspectives that feature feedback from our 24/7, 365 SOC analysts, market insight provided by a reputable cybersecurity insurance provider and even included the voices of some of our partners.

The Google Cloud Cybersecurity Forecast 2024 report predicted that cyber criminals and nation-state cyber operators will more heavily leverage server-less technologies within the cloud because it offers greater scalability, flexibility, and can be deployed using automated tools. The report focuses on recommendations for mitigating risks and improving cloud security for cloud security leaders and practitioners.

The target population was reached through in-person events, and by third parties via their opt-in email lists, Genetec opt-in email lists, and by digital promotions. This report points out whether answers are from all respondents, end user respondents, or channel partner respondents.

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.

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 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 sixth annual retrospective, this report is based on in-depth analysis of nearly 60,000 threats detected across our more than 1,000 customers’ endpoints, networks, cloud infrastructure, identities, and SaaS applications over the past year. This report provides you with a comprehensive view of this threat landscape, including new twists on existing adversary techniques, and the trends that our team has observed as adversaries continue to organize, commoditize, and ratchet up their cybercrime operations.

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 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.

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.