| |September 20198By Tony Velleca, CEO of CyberProof and CISO of UST Global, Californiaith an analysis of approxi-mately 1.5 billion data points in 86 countries, the recently released 2019 Ve-rizon Data Breach Inves-tigation Report (DBIR) highlights several important trends in cyber se-curity. Let's have a look at some of these trends in cyber security and explore how they may be linked to the move to the cloud and the wide-spread adoption of hybrid IT environments. A Year That Saw a Shift in the "Why" and the "How"According to the Verizon report, attacks related to cyber espionage are dropping as compared to attacks that are financially motivated, which are growing across the board.One expression of this trend toward financially motivated attacks is the increase in ransomware documented in the report. Ransomware was seen in 24% of incidents where malware was used. Moreover, ransomware ranked #2 in most-used malware varieties.A second trend uncovered in the report is that cybercriminals are more focused on finding the easiest targets providing the greatest returns. An indication of this is the increase in cloud-based compromises. According to the DBIR, compromised email accounts and cloud misconfiguration ("Miscellaneous Errors") led to the exposure of at least 60 million records this past year.HOW TO OVERCOME THE SECURITY CHALLENGES OF TODAY'S HYBRID ENTERPRISE IT ENVIRONMENTS IN MY OPINIONWTony Velleca
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