The Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report was recently released for 2015. The report has become an information security industry standard report since its inception in 2008. The report analyzes thousands of confirmed data breaches and security incidents from around the world and offers trends and guidance regarding security practices.
Some of the highlights from this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report include the following:
- Top three industries affected are public, technology/information, and financial services. This remains the same as in previous years.
- In 70% of the attacks, where motive can be determined, there was actually a secondary victim intended.
- The detection deficit, defined as the time the breach is detected from the time it occurred, is the smallest since recorded in the last 10 years. However, there is still that deficit, meaning the hackers still have the advantage.
- The Data Breach Investigations Report suggests that information sharing will be important in closing the gap since 75% of attacks observed spread from one victim to the next within 24 hours.
- People are still one of the weakest links, with 23% of people opening phishing emails and 11% of those people clicking on the attachments.
You can get a full copy of the Data Breach Investigations Report here.
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