2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

JDMurray

Verizon has released its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. Social engineering attacks targeting C-level executives, attacks on cloud-based email servers, and payment card web app compromises all increased over the past year. Ransomware accounted for nearly 24 percent of malware infections. The report is based “on real-world data from 41,686 security incidents and 2,013 data breaches provided by 73 data sources, both public and private entities, spanning 86 countries worldwide.”

2019 Data Breach Investigations Report - Executive Summary (PDF)
2019 Data Breach Investigations Report - Full Report (PDF)
Verizon DBIR Home Page

iBrokeIT

JDMurray said:

The report is based “on real-world data from 41,686 security incidents and 2,013 data breaches provided by 73 data sources, both public and private entities, spanning 86 countries worldwide.”

Can't help but wonder what faction that of all actual security incidents that actually makes up.

JDMurray

I would guess that annually most actual security incidents go undiscovered or unreported to the public. I'm also guessing that some of the data in the DBIR is from security incidents only known to the victim and Verizon Enterprise Services.