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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Most cyber-espionage breaches occur in the public domain
Industries
One way to identify industries impacted by Cyber- Espionage attacks is by examining overall Cyber-Espionage breach numbers.
When we look at how the industries that were featured in the 2020 DBIR fared when it comes to Cyber- Espionage breaches, we can see that some were more strongly impacted than others. In particular, Public (31%), Manufacturing (22%) and Professional (11%) topped the list for Cyber-Espionage breaches.
This is a good time to point out that the DBIR dataset can only tell us what the DBIR dataset knows. The DBIR dataset consists of successful, reported and known data breaches (and cybersecurity incidents). It doesn’t cover undiscovered, unreported or uncollected data (i.e., data originating outside of the 81 contributors to the 2020 DBIR).
While we have included more detailed, industry-specific Cyber-Espionage profiles in “Appendix B: Industry dossiers,” here we provide insight into seven industries. These sectors are the most impacted by Cyber-Espionage breaches over the 2014-2020 DBIR timeframe and have sufficient content for analysis Industry (NAICS #): Education (61), Financial (52), Information (51), Manufacturing (31-33), Mining + Utilities (21+22), Professional (54) and Public (92).