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State of IT 2024

2023 was a year of wild transformation, most notably with huge advances in the availability of AI technologies, persistent security threats, and economic uneasiness. But how will this affect IT professionals in the field in 2024? In this edition of the biannual SME IT Trends Report, JumpCloud surveyed 1200+ IT professionals across the U.S., U.K., and India for insights on how the industry is faring, how others working in IT are preparing for 2024, and quantitative data on IT budgets, OS usage, AI adoption, and more.

2022 Year-End API ThreatStats Report

This 2022 recap report looks back at the deteriorating API threat landscape, the most prevalent types of threat vectors, the most vulnerable types of APIs, and much more to provide API security and DevOps teams the data-driven insights needed to improve API security in 2023. One of the main take-aways is that the API threat landscape is becoming ever more dangerous. We make this assessment based on the 2022 data, and specifically these four trends.

Gartner® Top Trends in Cybersecurity 2023

The mission of today's security teams is clear: protect the company from emerging cyber threats. What's less clear is how to ensure stakeholders understand the impact of their programs. Traditional security reporting focuses on threats and vulnerabilities and how many were stopped and prevented, but non-technical stakeholders-who are concerned with the business's bottom line and how these threats can impact business continuity-need to know how these activities translate to tangible business values. As risk is tied to revenue, security teams need a simple way to understand and share the real efficacy of their programs with their stakeholders.

Creating Trust in an Insecure World: Strategies for Cybersecurity Leaders in the Age of Increasing Vulnerabilities

Are you overwhelmed by the intricacies of your attack surface? Concerned about the rising risk of vulnerabilities in your and your partners' digital ecosystems? New BitSight research finds that the average vulnerability remediation rate across organizations is about 5 percent per month, sparking concern that the status quo of exposure and vulnerability management is broken. Moreover, organizations face significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities in their extended, third-party ecosystem, and most security leaders do not have the tools to address these emerging threats.

Why Hackers Love Credentials: Parsing Verizon's 2022 Breach Report

The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the fifteenth such report in as many years, leads off with a startling statistic: Credentials are the number one overall attack vector hackers use in data breaches. Use of stolen credentials accounts for nearly half the breaches studied by Verizon, far ahead of phishing and exploit vulnerabilities, which account for 19% and 8% of attacks, respectively. Botnets, the fourth most common entry path for hackers, represent a mere 1% of attacks.

2022 seems to be on target for the lowest year of reported breaches by large US corporations

The number of data breaches reported in the first 6 months of 2022 has put this year on track to be the lowest year of reports in the last 5 years for large US corporations. By looking at the rate at which data breach events have been reported so far this year, we predict that the number of events reported is expected to be 15-20% of the number of breaches reported in 2021

Importance of Insurance-Validated Risk Models to Quantify Cyber Risk

By its nature, cyber risk is dynamic. New events happen and evolve all the time, making it difficult for enterprises to financially quantify their financial exposure to cyber attacks. Around two years ago, for example, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were making headlines, and now ransomware has come into heightened focus. It's reasonable to believe that other types of attacks will emerge in another two years and continue to change thereafter.