Top 50 Cybersecurity Threats

Foreword
Now more than ever, cybersecurity is essential to our future — after all, it’s vital to protecting everything we rely on today. From banking and online
commerce, to developing medicine and life-saving vaccines, to simpler things — like keeping our favorite video streaming services running.
Yet in the wake of mass migrations to the cloud and digital transformation, many organizations still haven’t reached the peak of their security operations
because of a few key challenges: An always-evolving threat landscape that pits us against creative and well-funded bad actors; the increasing complexity
of hybrid and multi-cloud environments; security teams are bogged down by an endless list of monotonous tasks and time-consuming manual
processes; and data silos caused by the proliferation of tools used inside our organizations, which create inefficiencies and blind spots.
These four challenges add up to a single reality: Security is a data problem. This is why a data-centric approach to security is paramount — arming us
with the right information at the right time, and connecting tools and teams through all the noise and complexity. An analytics-driven solution, drawing
upon end-to-end visibility and powered by machine learning (ML), is key to any organization’s success. These advanced capabilities not only give a
complete picture of your environment, but also move operations away from human intervention and basic diagnostics, towards an automated and
strengthened security defense.
How? By stitching together and contextualizing swathes of highly complex datasets, addressing threats faster with
automated alert triage, investigation and response, and honing in on anomalous behavior thanks to out-of-the-box
ML models and algorithms. All of this helps organizations improve their cyber resilience — the ability to anticipate and
adapt to compromises or attacks on cyber resources — so they can more effectively automate security operations
and safeguard the business, all the while accelerating growth and innovation.
At Splunk, we’re excited by the possibilities that data brings for a better — and more secure — future. But to get there,
we must be prepared. We need to know what we’re up against, including the threats that loom large. That’s why we’ve
put together this book of cybersecurity threats — so you can better identify the different types of attacks out
there, mitigate risk and make your business even stronger.
Gary Steele