It’s not always the newest or the most sophisticated threat you need to worry about, Verizon’s breach and security incident data for 2016 shows.
Among the many key takeaways in the 2017 edition Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released Thursday, is that there are significant differences in why and how organizations across different industries are attacked.
Data that Verizon collected from security incidents and data breaches that it investigated in 2016 showed, for instance, that financial and insurance companies suffered about six times as many breaches (364) from web application attacks as organizations in the information services sector (61).
