This report was created to present The Cyber-Value Connection, which is intended to put cyber security in a context that will resonate with business leaders. The Cyber-Value Connection looks at the reduction in company value that arises from a cyber breach, vividly demonstrating how a sever incident leads to a decline in share price.

This report contains observations from DDoS attack attempts in Q2 2017 and Q3 2017, as well as comparisons against previous quarters. The data represents the frequency and sophistication of DDoS attacks that organizations face today.

This whitepaper explains the trends and developments in computing that have made host-based behavioral analysis and exploit interception necessary elements of computer security and provides an overview of the technology and methodology used by DeepGuard, the Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) of F-Secure’s security products.

This paper takes a look at cloud sandboxing and how that can be used to protect governments from Ransomware.

From the Report, “This year’s GTIR utilizes the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls to identify controls that can be effective at each stage of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain® (CKC) . By ensuring that controls exists for each stage of the CKC, organizations can increase their ability to disrupt attacks . We’ve dedicated an entire section and case study to a Practical Application of Security Controls to the Cyber Kill Chain.”

This report is focussed on providing insights based on events in 2017.

This report, answers the questions, “why are hackers now targeting healthcare data?” and, “how did they conduct large scale attacks that affected millions?” It also details how healthcare organizations can use a Cloud Access Security Broker to protect data in the cloud, enable secure BYOD and remain HIPAA compliant.

This research presets a list of vectors commonly used by attackers to compromise internal networks after achieving initial access. It delivers recommendations on how to best address the issues. The goal is to help defenders focus efforts on the most important issues by understanding the attackers’ playbook, thereby maximizing results.

This technical white paper describes a new approach to identifying your most critical web application vulnerabilities faster and at lower cost.

In this report they look at incidents that occurred between October 2016 and September 2017.

This report takes a look back at 2017 and a look forward to 2018. It focuses specifically on malware attacks.

Released in 2017, this report details the cyberthreats that Minerva dealt with in 2016.

The term “exposure” can mean many things. In the context of this report, they define “exposure” as offering services that either expose potentially sensitive data over cleartext channels or are widely recognized to be unwise to make available on the internet, such as database systems. They looked for the presence of 30 of the most prevalent TCP services across the internet, tallied up the results and performed cross-country comparisons to produce a National Exposure Index, a ranked aggregation of the results of Rapid7’s internet-wide scans of 16 usually cleartext or highly targeted common services, based on the in-country prevalence of those services.

This Quarterly report offers key takeaways from the third Quarter of 2016. Those takeaways come from Email, Exploit Kits, Web-Based Attacks, and Social Media and Domain Research.

This report from Symantec gives a variety of information about ransomware. It gives an overview, discusses the factors driving the growth and persistence of ransomware, infection vectors, platforms affected, the major ransomware families and finally, how businesses are going to be impacted.

In this report, they focus on issues related to retaining cyber soldiers. They use data from the Army’s personnel files to determine how many new soldiers are likely to meet the qualifications for this new MOS, as well as their expected retention rates. Specifically, they apply 17C enlist- ment requirements to all soldiers to determine how many meet the standards. They also use data on civilian occupa- tions to determine the earnings these soldiers are likely to be offered based on their military cyber training. To do this, they use the American Community Survey (ACS) data on all workers in information technology (IT)–related occupations.

This report provides helpful advice on how to secure Cloud Assets on Amazon’s Web Services.

This report focuses on software vulnerabilities, software vulnerability exploits, malware, and unwanted software. It is the hope that readers find the data, insights, and guidance provided in this report useful in helping them protect their organizations, software, and users.

With unique and specialized analysis, this paper discusses Nigerian cyber crime actors, their growth, collaboration, and the direction they are headed.

Contributors to this paper include security professionals, including the Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), the Threat Research Unit, Information Security, and the Custom Analytics group.

This report helps detail the importance of monitoring suspicious domain registrations to protect a brand from being destroyed by cyber criminals.