Surveys & Reports

CSO Magazine has released its annual Global State of Cybercrime Survey 2015, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, indicating that both security breaches are on the rise and that the costs associated with security breaches are also on the rise. The number of detected security incidents shared by respondents in 2014 rose to 42.8 million, a 48% increase over 2013. Highlights from the report include: Total number of security incidents: 42.8 million...

More than half of organizations and employees are sacrificing mobile security practices to take advantage of the efficiency benefits of mobile connectivity.

According to research conducted by IDC on behalf of Kensington, IT managers are reporting a 21% increase in laptop theft, with only 3% of all stolen laptops recovered. Theft of mobile devices is up 21% too, and it’s only a matter of time before these devices, laden with business data and network access, lead to a large scale data breach. According to the same research, 91% of companies in...

The Ponemon Institute and IBM recently released the 2014 Cost of Data Breach study, showing that the cost of data breaches continues to rise, up to $145 per lost record over the $136 from 2013. The average cost to a company was $3.5 million, 15% higher than the 2013 cost. This is the 9th year of this report, analyzing actual data breach experiences from more than 250 organizations from 11...

The 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report was just released by Verizon, using statistical clustering to create for the first time a series of 9 patterns in security incidents that together describe 92% of the confirmed data breaches over the past 10 years. One of those top 9 patterns? Theft or loss of assets. The report looks at 63,000 security incidents and 1,367 confirmed data breaches. Using the nine pattern...