This year’s findings provide a deeper look into the critical challenges and opportunities shaping application security as organizations grapple with growing attack surfaces, tool sprawl, and the rapid adoption of generative AI.

This year’s edition of the Cyber Readiness Report explores the critical role of robust cyber resilience in mitigating evolving organisational risks and safeguarding reputations. This year’s research reveals that concerns of reputational damage, caused by the loss of sensitive information, is a driving force behind responses to ransomware attacks. Over the past 12 months, the top three reasons organisations paid ransom were: to protect their customer data, to protect their reputation, and to recover their data because they did not have any back-ups.

This report presents the main findings with respect to the current state of CISOs. This duality became evident during our recent discussions with about 100 prominent CISOs from across the U.S. and Canada. The new SEC cyber rules and landmark cases that the agency brought against CISOs point to new legal and liability exposure.

In this report, the term security awareness program is used to describe a structured effort to engage, train, and secure your workforce and build a strong security culture. However, many organizations refer to such efforts using different terms, including security behavior and culture, security engagement and influence, security training and education, security communications, or human risk management.

This report leverages N2K’s analytical strengths to map WiCyS members’ skills directly to the NICE Workforce Framework, categorizing capabilities into functional areas that highlight the unique strengths and potential growth opportunities for WiCyS members. By conducting thorough diagnostics and focused analyses, this partnership identifies the capabilities of WiCyS members and aligns them with industry standards to ensure that their skills are recognized and utilized to the fullest.

This report will help users to understand the nature, scope and impact of the threats they face, and will help security teams tailor their program and messaging accordingly. A security awareness program should be an essential component of any organization’s security strategy, but by itself it isn’t enough. Our data shows that 96% of people who took a risky action knew that what they were doing might be risky, so it seems that key information is getting through. However, knowing what to do and doing it are two different things. The challenge is now not just awareness, but behavior change.

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.

This report represents organizations that are proactively integrating tools like Veracode into their AppSec programs. Organizations without scanning integrated into their development processes will likely have a higher prevalence of security flaws than shown here. The results do show a steady downward trend over the last eight years. We’re particularly encouraged to see that the prevalence of high-severity flaws has dropped to half of what it was back in 2016.

The State of Email & Collaboration Security 2024 report is based on an in-depth global survey of 1,100 information technology and cybersecurity professionals. Mimecast commissioned UK-based research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct the survey, which took place during October and November 2023.Survey participants worked at organizations ranging from 250 to 500 employees to more than 10,000 employees.

The 2023 Arctic Wolf State of Cybersecurity Trends Report took the temperature of organizations around the globe and sought to understand not only their current and future concerns, but how they were responding to the problems that had plagued them in previous years. Our research shows that, despite the enduring nature of many of these challenges, organizations are making measurable strides in areas where progress has proven limited in previous years.

Our goal is that this report serves as a crucial resource in enhancing your strategies and defenses in the battle to protect your organization’s assets and integrity against insider risks. This survey, capturing responses from 467 cybersecurity professionals across diverse sectors, seeks to uncover the nature of insider threat challenges faced by organizations, focusing on understanding the factors driving these threats, their detection and mitigation complexities, and the effectiveness of insider threat programs.

This report aims, simply, to help you build a proactive defense that anticipates and thwarts tomorrow’s threats. So, for the second year running we rallied the community for the largest predictions survey the cybersecurity awareness community has seen. We’ve harnessed their expertise, experience, and frontline intel.

The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2022 reveals that both the frequency and cost of cyber attacks are rising for US businesses, and the pandemic is continuing to have lasting effects on the cyber security landscape. While the US remains a global leader in cyber maturity, they are also most likely to pay a cyber-related ransom. To gauge businesses’ preparedness to combat cyber incidents and breaches, Hiscox surveyed over 5,000 professionals responsible for their company’s cyber security from the US, UK, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. This includes key findings from over 900 professionals from the US.

To help businesses measure cyber attack readiness, we analyzed performance data from the 982 corporate security teams and 5,117 professionals who participated in our global CTF competition. HTB Business CTF: The Great Escape featured over 30 hacking challenges based on the live threat landscape covering areas such as forensics, blockchain, cloud, and more.

Increasingly dynamic cloud environments are presenting visibility challenges for security. Indeed, the majority of organizations claim that lack of access to physical networks, the dynamic nature of cloud-native applications, and elastic cloud infrastructure create blind spots, making security monitoring challenging. SOC teams need to address this cloud visibility gap by collecting, processing, monitoring, and acting upon information from an assortment of cloud security telemetry sources.

In this study on general phishing awareness, over 9,000 simulated phishing emails were sent to users who signed up in 2022. Participants were sent three simulated attacks over the course of a week- all classified as moderate in terms of complexity. The users had to identify these emails. If they clicked, they were forwarded to contextual learning resources.

The 2023 SANS Security Awareness Report analyzes data provided by nearly two-thousand security awareness professionals from around the world to identify and benchmark how organizations are managing their human risk. This data-driven report provides actionable steps and resources to enable organizations at any stage of their Awareness program to mature said programs and benchmark them against others.

At HPE, we believe that our individual and collective success lies in our ability to share learnings, ideas and opportunities. When it comes to securing our respective organizations, we’ve all plagued by the same challenges: a global cybersecurity skills shortage, an expanding attack surface, distributed data, and increasing demands from transparency from stakeholders. This report showcases some of the work we’ve done on that front during 2022 and some predictions for 2023.

The FutureSec State of Security Report 2023 is a comprehensive analysis of the current state of cybersecurity, highlighting the challenges and trends in the industry. The report reveals the increasing sophistication of cybercriminals and the emerging threat of cyber-warfare and cyberterrorism. With a significant shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, organizations are struggling to keep up with the rising threats and costs of data breaches. The report further discusses the concept of zero trust and how Softchoice can work with organizations from consultation to implementation to optimization. Download the report now to learn about the latest developments in cybersecurity and how to protect your organization.

In the 2023 edition, we wanted to understand the specific challenges related to building and maintaining Insider Risk programs, technologies and training. To explore this, we surveyed 700 respondents – cybersecurity leaders, cybersecurity managers and cybersecurity practitioners – from US companies with 500 or more employees from a range of public and private sectors.

The 2023 Cloud Security Report is a comprehensive study based on an extensive survey conducted among 351 cybersecurity professionals in the European Union (EU). By analyzing the latest trends in cloud adoption, identifying prevalent security challenges, and highlighting best practices, this report provides insights for organizations seeking to fortify their cloud environments.