Cybersecurity Prioritization Insights from the Verizon DBIR
Summary: The fifteenth Verizon DBIR draws on 914,547 incidents and 234,638 breaches plus 8.9 TB of cybersecurity data, and GreyNoise contributed its opportunistic attacker sensor fleet data to the report. The report's summary covers initial breach techniques including credentials, phishing, vulnerability exploitation and botnets, a 13% year-over-year rise in ransomware, over 3,400 "System Intrusion" events, and 13% of breaches caused by errors such as cloud storage misconfigurations.
Bottom line: Ransomware rose 13% from 2020 and attackers keep reaching for the newest CVE exploits, so the gap between disclosure and patching is where the loss lands. With 13% of breaches traced to errors like unsecured cloud storage, the exposure is as likely to be your own configuration as an outside adversary.
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