From: TechTarget
by: Michael Heller
In its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon debuts data breach cost estimates based on newly available data, and also advocates for better threat intelligence sharing among different industries facing common threats.
Enterprises have long struggled to accurately estimate the cost of a data breach because of the many variables involved, but in its new Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), Verizon is confident enough in its newly gathered data to offer predicted data breach cost ranges for the first time.
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The dataset included more than 200 million successful exploitations across over 500 vulnerabilities, determined by “correlating SIEM logs, analyzing them for exploit signatures, and pairing those with vulnerability scans of the same environments to create an aggregated picture of exploited vulnerabilities over time.”
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