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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.
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The top compromised attribute by cyber-espionage breaches is software installation integrity
Compromised Attribute varieties
When we look at Cyber-Espionage breaches and the top compromised Attribute varieties for the 2014-2020 DBIR timeframe, we see Software installation (Integrity) (91%), Alter behavior (Integrity) (84%) and Secrets (Confidentiality) (73%) as top compromised Attribute varieties.
In comparing all breaches to Cyber-Espionage breaches during the 2014-2020 DBIR timeframe, we see Software installation (Integrity) (43%) and Alter behavior (Integrity) (32%) as first and second for all breaches, which parallels Cyber-Espionage breaches, albeit at a much lower percentage. For all breaches, the next two compromised Attribute varieties are Credentials (Confidentiality) (29%) and Personal (Confidentiality) (28%), whereas for Cyber- Espionage breaches, the third and fourth most compromised Attribute varieties are Secrets (Confidentiality) (73%) and Internal (Confidentiality) (29%).
Secrets and Internal compromised Attribute varieties ranking so high within Cyber-Espionage breaches comes as no surprise, as these are the top compromised Data varieties (see “Data” section of this report).