The goal of this report is not only to demonstrate the impact of today’s threats against every kind of organization around the world, but also to make cybersecurity personal, interesting, and relevant to the people being targeted by these threats. This report explains what the most important threats are and how they work, for readers interested in those topics. However, the key focus of this report is to emphasize actions management, technical staff, and users can take to improve security.

Most cybersecurity reports are meant for security professionals. They’re not intended for use by anyone without significant security knowledge and experience. NTT Security has taken a different approach for this year’s Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR). We want to provide a resource for educating everyone with security responsibilities, from security and IT professionals to executives, management, and end users. In today’s environment, everyone has an important role to play in cybersecurity. Effectively communicating the importance of security to all groups, from decision makers at the executive level to the users who are exposed to attacks on a daily basis, is an ongoing challenge at nearly every organization. 

At NTT Security, we have identified the top threats, analyzed their activities, and determined how they should be handled by organizations. This is based on our analysis of trillions of security relevant logs over the past year. On our clients’ networks across six continents, we identified over six billion attempted attacks. We monitored threat actors using nearly every type of attack imaginable. We assisted organizations with data breach investigations, collected and analyzed global threat intelligence, and performed our own security research. The lessons learned from all these efforts are directly reflected in recommendations throughout this report.

Additional information from the author can be found here. 

Contributors: NTT Security
Categories: Whitepaper
SRC Type: Category Specific, Information Technology (IT), Risk Management, Sourcing Management