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Verizon’s Annual Breach Report Finds 92 Percent Of Attacks Follow Nine Basic Patterns

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Verizon’s Annual Breach Report Finds 92 Percent Of Attacks Follow Nine Basic Patterns
A high percentage of hackers can compromise systems in several days, whereas a low percentage of organizations can discover the hack in several days. Photo: Verizon, DBIR 2014.

Compiling 10 years of information and 100,000 incidents, Verizon [VZ] has found that the vast majority of data breaches follow nine basic patterns. “The techniques to exploit computer vulnerabilities are actually dropping in complexity,” said Bryan Sartin, director of the Research, Investigations, Solutions, Knowledge (RISK) Team at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. The company’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) charts attacks across industries and found that the most common incidents occurred via these patterns: denial of service (DOS); insider privilege misuse;…

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