2017 Verizon Data Breach Report Sees No End for Cyber Events

2016 offered up some conflicting trends in cyber events according to this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), but one thing is clear – issues like ransomware, outside hackers, and social engineering aren’t going away any time soon.

“It is true that the DBIR will never be blank as—choose your cliché—‘there is no such thing as 100 percent secure’ or ’perfection is the enemy of good enough.’ It is also true that due to the nature of the report we admittedly have a lack of success stories. After all, this is at its core a report about confirmed data breaches,” wrote the authors of Verizon’s annual DBIR. The report included not only confirmed breaches but other cyber incidents, as well as a breakdown of incidents by industry.

Read more at http://www.advisenltd.com/2017/04/28/2017-verizon-data-breach-report-sees-no-end-cyber-events/

Erin Ayers, 2017 Verizon data breach report sees no end for cyber events (April 28, 2017), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.

2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast

November 2016

Advisen and Experian released an annual white paper that outlines five predictions for the data breach industry in the coming year. The 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast is intended to shed light on emerging trends that companies should know about and prepare for. The free, 10-page report offers industry predictions that are rooted in Experian’s history of helping companies navigate more than 17,000 breaches over the last decade.

Cyber Threats and Trends to Look Out For

Aftershock password breaches will expedite the death of the password. This is one of the data breach trends outlined by Experian in the 2017 Fourth Annual Data Breach Industry Forecast.

Read and download the paper @ http://www.advisenltd.com/2016/11/16/2017-data-breach-industry-forecast/

Advisen Ltd. (November 2016). 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast [White Paper]. Retrieved from www.AdvisenLtd.com

Cyber Espionage Takes Center Stage for Foreign Relations

Cybercrime continues to increase, plaguing businesses, governments, and citizens, but one form of attack – cyber espionage — threatens intellectual competitiveness and economic and military security while potentially going unnoticed and with few cyber insurance options in the marketplace.

This week, reports indicated that the White House may implement sanctions against China over the stealing of state secrets and private sector business research and development. The move would be the first to formally employ an executive order issued by Pres. Barack Obama last spring, and it follows the massive data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that experts have speculated allowed nation-states to tap into the personally identifiable information of government intelligence agents.

Read more at http://www.advisenltd.com/2015/09/03/cyber-espionage-takes-center-stage-for-foreign-relations/

Ayers, Erin. ‘Cyber espionage takes center stage for foreign relations’. ©2015 Advisen Ltd. 11 September 2015.