Business leaders’ bottom-line concerns often conflict with CISOs’ insistence on vital cybersecurity investments. The CISO-board relationship is deepening as they have more opportunities to engage on matters of cybersecurity and enterprise risk. CISOs’ regular presence in the boardroom and their counsel on enterprise risk will strengthen board confidence and alignment.

The Crypto Maturity Journey outlines considerations for cryptocurrency product rollout, enabling FIs to evaluate market opportunities while simultaneously addressing regulatory and compliance requirements. Over the last few years, cryptocurrency has become a mainstream asset class, with institutional investments as one factor in boosting adoption around the world. Institutions such as BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale have launched Bitcoin and Ethereum ETPs, providing a more accessible avenue for retail and institutional investors to gain exposure to these digital assets.

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.

DataGrail’s 2024 Data Privacy Trends Report shows how these factors are playing out on the ground and provides a benchmark for businesses to see how they are tracking. Businesses are receiving more privacy requests, also known as Data Subject Requests (DSRs) every year; we saw a 246% increase in requests from 2021 to 2023.

For this year’s report, we asked comms pros how they are currently using gen AI to help them craft press release content. The answers reveal a willingness among some PR practitioners to test multiple use cases for AI that help streamline the press release creation process. While challenges remain, comms pros reported experiencing several downstream benefits of distributing press releases across the newswire.

IANS and Artico Search conducted their fifth annual CISO Compensation and Budget Research Study. Our analysis of the key drivers behind security budget growth reveals significant increases are often triggered by incidents or breaches, or by rising risks such as those associated with AI adoption.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the significance of security testing cannot be overstated. As we delve into the 2023 trends, it’s clear that penetration testing remains the cornerstone of a robust security strategy. we’ve observed a substantial 31% increase in manual pentest engagements, highlighting a growing reliance on this building block of security.

In this report, one clear finding from the survey was that it is important to test throughout the application lifecycle using a variety of methods. Although testing early continues to be important, having visibility into and being able to monitor and test deployed applications is still critical. Although security testing capabilities have also improved, the value of individual testing capabilities has changed in response to increased threats and changing application architectures.

The 2024 State of the Media: Tech Edition is a subsection of that report, zeroing in on the behaviors and perspectives of journalists and media influencers who cover the technology and engineering industry, a pool of over 500 respondents. We examined their specific challenges and implications for the PR professionals seeking to work with them, as well as the potential opportunities. Our respondents provided candid insights into what they want and need from public relations professionals whose organizations and clients strive to build brand awareness, consumer trust, and thought leadership in the technology and engineering sector.

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.

Several trends in the way we work and consume technology have resulted in an ever-expanding cyberattack surface for organizations of all sizes. Comprehensive digital transformation across enterprises, the rise in cloud adoption, the normalization of working from anywhere, and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives have resulted in an explosion of new applications, along with an increased rate of iterations and updates.

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.

This new study makes it clear that enterprise demands have certainly continued to grow since then. Organizations place greater strategic priority on TPRM to contribute to a widening scope of enterprise risk that extends beyond cybersecurity. It’s also clear from these results that supply chains are expanding as is the need to efficiently assess risk across those business relationships. Respondents tell us they’re increasingly relying on automated assessments and risk ratings to meet that demand.

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.

CompTIA’s 2024 State of Cybersecurity report explores the many variables that must be considered in balancing the cybersecurity equation. As cybersecurity becomes a critical business imperative, every process must be scrutinized for potential vulnerabilities. This practice of risk analysis then drives decisions around workflow, skill-building and technology implementation. With technology trends evolving and attack patterns changing, true equilibrium is impossible to achieve. The balancing act is a full-time job.

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.

In this report, CybSafe and The National Security Alliance surveyed over 6,000 people across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and New Zealand to get a better understanding of the security behaviors and attitudes. They asked the people about their knowledge of cybersecurity risks, their security best practices, and challenges they face in staying safe online. Cybercriminals know if they want to target an organization, they need to target its people. They believe this report will help organizations to better protect themselves and their people.

This is the third edition of ThreatQuotient’s annual survey of senior cybersecurity professionals, exploring the topic of cybersecurity automation adoption. Read this report to understand how CISOs and senior cybersecurity professionals are handling the incorporation of cybersecurity automation into their strategies to protect the complex, extended enterprise – and their analyst teams – from the pressures of escalating cyber threats.

This year’s research explored three key outcomes and the capabilities that contribute to achieving those outcomes: Organizational performance, team performance and employee well-being. The research also explored means or performance measures that we often talk about like ends-in-themselves: software delivery performance and operational performance.

The objective with this research was to gather the perspectives and priorities of global IT leaders who are considering leveraging cybersecurity best practices to spur growth in their organizations. Through the survey, we were able to pinpoint areas of investment, operational challenges and potential threats while gauging an outlook on the future.

The ninth annual ISACA global State of Cybersecurity Survey continues to identify current challenges and trends in the cybersecurity field. For the second consecutive year, ISACA fielded questions to gain deeper insight into persistent issues in cybersecurity workforce skill sets and staffing for entry-level positions. The State of Cybersecurity 2023 report analyzes the survey results on cybersecurity skills and staffing, resources, cyberthreats and cybersecurity maturity.