The results of the recent Verizon DBIR revealed significant differences between industries in terms of vulnerability patching. Organizations in sectors such as information technology and manufacturing typically remove over 75% of vulnerabilities within 3 weeks of detection. At the other end of the spectrum, 75% or more of vulnerabilities discovered in financial and public sector organizations and educational institutions remain unpatched for longer than 12 weeks after discovery. The DBIR ...

The Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has chronicled the growth in security and data breaches for over a decade.  The findings of the most recent report released on April 27 are based on the analysis of more than 42,000 security incidents across a variety of industries and countries. For the first time, the DBIR examines security breaches for key industries to analyze threats confronted by specific verticals. According to the report, attack patterns and motives, as well as susceptibil ...