6 Lessons for Cybersecurity Leaders

The state of security is highly adrenalized these days — more so than usual. More than two years into
the deadly and disruptive global pandemic, not only are we still seeing more attacks, we’re also seeing
more breaches.
New global research conducted by Splunk and the Enterprise Strategy Group of more than 1,200
security leaders found that 49% of organizations say they’d suffered a data breach over the past two
years, up from 39% in our survey a year earlier. And while certain attack vectors dominated headlines
in the last year or two, criminals are still finding success with traditional playbooks:
51% report
business email
compromise, up from
42% a year ago.
39% of
organizations report
insider attacks, up from
27% a year ago.
79% say
they’ve encountered
ransomware attacks,
and 35% admit one or
more of those attacks
led them to lose access
to data and systems.