I am putting together a security presentation, and I would like statistics on the occurrence of and damages from security breaches. Does anyone know of a reliable, recently-updated source?
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See also http://security.stackexchange.com/q/12041/836 which asks for statistics that were particular to MITM attacks. – Jeff Ferland Jan 13 '13 at 04:04
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2You'll probably find the Symantec threat report helpful: http://www.symantec.com/threatreport/ – makerofthings7 Jan 13 '13 at 05:08
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@makerofthings7 The Symantec report is clear, well-organized and didn't require me to register for anything. Thanks! – Sean W. Jan 18 '13 at 21:02
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Likely helpful:
Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Reports
Trustwave's Global Security Reports
Mandiant's M-Trends
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Key List of Resources (2015)
Industry Forecast
Industry Survey
Statistics & Reports
- Data Breach Statistics by IBM
- Data Breach Investigation Reports by Verizon
- Data Breach Statistics and summary by ITRC
- Security Report by Cisco with industry-sorted statistics
- Application and Network Security Report by Radware
- Internet Security Statistics by Symantec
- Infrastructure Security Report by Arbor
- Security Intelligence Report by Microsoft
Resource Hub
Infograph
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http://datalossdb.org/statistics - truly opensource and not marketing-driven data.
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The sources they get the data from (state governments) are open, but one must request permission to use their compiled data and charts. Too bat it's not under a Creative Commons license. – Sean W. Jan 18 '13 at 19:46
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I'll add to this as I check for relevancy.
- FireEye + Mandiant
- Advanced Threat Report (2015): key findings (press release)
- CrowdStrike
- Global Threat Intel Report (Feb-2015). Numbers are sparse but charts are estimable.
- Intelligence reports and data in the adversary lineup section of the site are over these adversaries and target industries.
- Palo Alto Networks
- Data breach frequency article links to Identity Theft Resource Center Data Breach Reports (2015)
- Krebs on Security
- An entire section of articles on data breaches.
- DataLossDB
- Charts with basic adjustment. Broken down by a few categories such as incidents, business types, data type. May require licensing.
- Breach Level Index
- Home tab has mass statistics, recency and global scope with useful search at the database tab.
- Infographics
- Top 5 Most Compromised Merchant Categories with summary spend
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I did a presentation on the exact same thing last year. I found Zone-H.org to be a good source.
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