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Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed 3,950 data breaches across 16 industries. Tom Merritt explains five things to know about these breaches.
Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed 3,950 data breaches across 16 industries. Tom Merritt explains five things to know about these breaches.
A new report from digital identity platform ForgeRock shows how and where data breaches are affecting US businesses and their customers. With more than 5 billion records compromised in 2019, breaches cost US organizations more than $1.2 trillion.
Most breaches are now for financial gain, according to Verizon's report, with web application attacks also on the rise. The latest Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon Business highlighted a number of alarming statistics about the data breach landscape and the actors behind attacks, finding two-fold increases in web application breaches as well as growth in the number of data breaches conducted for financial gain.
Verizon has released its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which offers an overview of the cyber security incidents and data breaches that happened in/were discovered in the past year. The majority of data breaches are caused by credential theft, social attacks and errors.
The majority of data breaches are for financial gain-up from 71% in 2019, the annual report found. "We're seeing an awful lot of misconfiguration of cloud applications that actually makes the data that's housed in these cloud applications more susceptible to theft," Loveland said.
Demonstrating the fear and trust issues experienced by IT professionals, the study found that IT professionals are more concerned about the security of their company's data than the security of their own home. 78 percent of organizations use more than 50 discrete cybersecurity products to address security issues; 37 percent use more than 100 cybersecurity products.
The number of workforce identities in the enterprise is growing dramatically, largely driven by DevOps, automation, and an increase in enterprise connected devices, which will only continue to accelerate identity growth, an IDSA survey of 502 IT security and identity decision makers reveals. According to the study, the vast majority of IT security and identity professionals have experienced an identity-related breach at their company within the past two years, with nearly all of them reporting that they believe these breaches were preventable.
A recent report from information security firm Netwrix, shows how educational facilities are vulnerable to data breaches and what they can do to better defend themselves. A special section and press release focused on the educational sector, specifically on how data sharing poses a risk.
The total number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 has decreased by 58% compared to the same period last year, Risk Based Security reveals. Publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 drop dramatically compared to 2019.