DBIR 2016 - Data Breach Investigations Report

Abstract

Well here we are again, and it is time to take the annual journey into our collection of real-world data breaches and information security incidents from the prior year. We have published this report nine times1 and we truly appreciate you spending your valuable time with us, whether you have been with us since our humble, pie-chart-centric beginnings or if this is your first read.

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The incident data is the workhorse of this report and is used to build out all the information within the Breach Trends and Incident Classification Patterns sections. We use non-incident security data to paint a fuller picture in the patterns as well as in stand-alone research. Any opportunity to take several organizations’ data and combine them for a research topic was pursued. The Gestalt principles in action!

(Verizon, DBIR, 2016, p. 1)

Links

• https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/cyberday/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/2b_Verizon_Data-Breach-Investigations-Report_2016_Report_en_xg.pdf

Citation

Verizon, 2016. 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (Verizon DBIR Research Report). Verizon.