SLIDE 1
The Threat and Global Trends
- 34% of all cyber attacks involved internal actors
- 43% of the breaches involved small business victims, 16% were of public sector entities, 15% in Healthcare, and 10% of financial services
entities
- 23% involved nation-state or affiliated actors
- Only 71% were financially motivated while 25% were espionage
- 56% took months to discover#
- Information theft is the most expensive and fastest rising consequence of cybercrime—but data is not the only target. Core systems, such as
industrial control systems, are being hacked in a powerful move to disrupt and destroy
- Cybercriminals are adapting their attack methods. They are using the human layer—the weakest link—as a path to attacks, through
increased phishing and malicious insiders. Other techniques, such as those employed by nation-state attacks to target commercial businesses, are changing the nature of recovery, with insurance companies trying to classify cyberattacks as an “act of war” issue
- Cyberattackers have slowly shifted their attack patterns to exploit third and fourth-party supply chain partner environments to gain entry to
target systems—including industries with mature cybersecurity standards, frameworks, and regulations
- The global average total cost of cybercrime for each compromised company increased from US$11.7 million in 2017 to a new high of
US$13.0 million—a rise of 12 percent*
#2019 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon * The ninth annual cost of cybercrime study is from accenturesecurity and conducted by the Ponemon Institute