This is a Quarterly Report that looks at Cyber security issues in New Zealand and around the world.

“The SERT Quarterly Threat Report provides a glimpse inside the research conducted by Solutionary researchers, security professionals and analysts spanning the last three months and highlights the results of this research. In addition to a wide variety of open-source intelligence tools and honeypots, SERT also analyzes data from the Solutionary ActiveGuard platform. The patented, cloud-based Solutionary ActiveGuard service platform collects, correlates and analyzes security events across systems for Solutionary clients globally, providing researchers with an even deeper understanding of the overall threat landscape.”

This white paper will describe how the right infrastructure foundation can assist GDPR compliance, while contributing to your company’s stature in the digital age, as well as offer a checklist to ensure that new IT infrastructure purchases effectively support GDPR compliance.

This report, based on case studies, outlines the recent trends of cyberattacks on the defense industry.

Notable declines in darknet exposure among black hat exhibitors, but does a risky darkint score correlate to share price performance?

This paper examines the life of those in the cybersecurity profession, and seeks to provide answers to the high turnover rate in the field.

Research by McKinsey and the World Economic Forum points to a widening range of technology vulnerabilities and potentially huge losses in value tied to innovation.

This paper was conceived to examine the relative value placed on data from the perspective of different stakeholders: be they enterprise security professionals, regulators, insurers or cybercriminals. An integral part of this process is determining what that data is worth. The report attempts to answer this question and to provide guidance that can be used to help evaluate the cost of data breaches. It also looks at what data risk vigilance measures organizations have in place.

This is a threat advisory for Thomas Cook Ltd. Mobile Apps & Website

This is a transcript of a February 2018 US Senate meeting that discussed Data Security and the hacking community.

In 2015, after two years of study and policy coordination, the United States and Japan publicly issued new defense guidelines, updating and expanding upon the previous guidance of 1997. The new guidelines enable a much broader set of cooperative engagements, including in geographic areas beyond the areas surrounding Japan and in the new domains of outer space and cyberspace.

This report contains the observations and insights1 derived from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations enacted on behalf of customers of Verisign DDoS Protection Services and the security research of Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services in Q4 2015. It represents a unique view into the attack trends unfolding online for the previous quarter, including attack statistics and behavioral trends.

An October 2016 Bitdefender survey of 250 IT decision makers in the United States in companies with more than 1,000 PCs, shows they will rise in companies’ hierarchies, as CEOs and board members face increasing internal and external security risks that could ruin customer trust and business forecasts. Still, not all C-suites include CIOs/CISOs in the business decision-making process. This survey, carried out by iSense Solutions, shows how IT decision makers perceive their role inside the organizations and what they need to meet shareholder expectations. How has virtualization changed the security game? How many attacks can be stopped with the current resources? Would they pay to avoid public shaming?

A thorough infographic detailing predictions for the future of Western Europe Cyber security.

A report that was created by the 2015 Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Cyber Security Survey of major Australian businesses was conducted to obtain a better picture of Australian organisations’ understanding of cyber threats and how they are positioned to secure their networks.

From the report, “Cyber attacks are a reality for all organizations. In this year’s cost of cyber crime research they focus on the importance of thriving and innovating while simultaneously reducing the financial and reputational consequences of a cyber attack. An important finding of this research is that a high security profile, as determined by the deployment of specific practices and technologies, will support business innovation and reduce the cost of cyber crime.”

The purpose of this research is to examine how the use of encryption has evolved over the past 11 years and the impact of this technology on the security posture of organizations. The first encryption trends study was conducted in 2005 for a US sample of respondents.3 Since then we have expanded the scope of the research to include respondents in all regions of the world.

This report hopes to help IT security decision makers gain a better understanding of how their perceptions, concerns, priorities, and defenses stack up against those of other IT security professionals and their organizations. Applied constructively, the data, analyses, and findings covered here can be used by diligent IT security teams to shape answers to many important questions.

This report provides complete survey reports, expert analysis, and thoughts from leading experts in the field.

In this fourth annual State of Security Operations report, Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides updates to the current and emerging capabilities, best practices, and performance levels of security operations as learned from the assessment of organizations around the globe.

The 360° Cyber Risk Survey Report provides rich benchmarked data, informed analysis, and actionable best practices to help middle-market organizations, senior leaders, and boards of directors obtain a better understanding of the operational and financial impacts of cyber risks. In today’s ever-changing cyber threat landscape, knowing how your organization stacks up against others is key in the fight to stay ahead of the next threat.