Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) report for 2023 is finally out. Gain in-depth analysis of recent cyber-threat and data breaches that can help you better secure your organization. Cybercriminals continue to innovate and are adjusting their attack vectors every day in order gain an edge on organizations. The Verizon DBIR report outlines threat research data in easy-to-understand graphs and summaries that enable you to visualize the existing threat landscape faced by organizations.

As the only API security vendor that participated with Verizon DBIR Report, Cequence wants to share some key insights found in the Verizon DBIR report:

• Data Breaches: 83% of data breaches involved external actors which aligns with Cequence’s own threat research. Public facing APIs often handle sensitive data, and the analysis consistently points to attackers increasingly targeting APIs to breach sensitive customer data.
• DOS Attacks: The Verizon DBIR report identified DOS attacks as the most common attack vector that target customer applications. These types of attacks are focused on exhausting server resources thereby denying legitimate user’s access to an application.
• Automated Attacks: Simple automated attacks using stolen credentials represented over 80% of all web application attacks. Attackers found the most success with using brute-force techniques that utilized stolen customer data obtained from prior data breaches.

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