Highlights of Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (opens in new tab)

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61 pointsmatteska7y ago9 comments

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Verizon released the 11th edition of their report yesterday and I took a quick look at it this morning and started compiling interesting highlights into this post.

Hope this will be of value to some of you. Particularly to people that don't want to spend time reading the entire PDF report.

simoes7y ago

There is also this companion site: http://www.verizonenterprise.com/verizon-insights-lab/dbir/t...

zinssmeister7y ago

Thank you for sharing this, haven't seen this before. Pretty interesting.

forapurpose7y ago

The report looks very interesting, but for percentages to be meaningful we need to know that the data is a representative sample of actual breaches. Is it?

zinssmeister7y ago

The percentages in this report are in relationship with the data points of 53,000 incidents and 2,216 confirmed data breaches that the team analyzed.

forapurpose7y ago

Yes, I saw and I should have included that in my comment. But I have no idea how many incidents and data breaches exist in reality. Is that a random selection? All incidents/breaches reported someplace? Are they all Fortune 500 company breaches?

What does this sample represent?

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zinssmeister7y ago

Verizon released the 11th edition of their report yesterday and I took a quick look at it this morning and started compiling interesting highlights into this post.

Hope this will be of value to some of you. Particularly to people that don't want to spend time reading the entire PDF report.

simoes7y ago

There is also this companion site: http://www.verizonenterprise.com/verizon-insights-lab/dbir/t...

zinssmeister7y ago

Thank you for sharing this, haven't seen this before. Pretty interesting.

forapurpose7y ago

The report looks very interesting, but for percentages to be meaningful we need to know that the data is a representative sample of actual breaches. Is it?

zinssmeister7y ago

The percentages in this report are in relationship with the data points of 53,000 incidents and 2,216 confirmed data breaches that the team analyzed.

forapurpose7y ago

What does this sample represent?

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