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Understand the cybersecurity threat landscape for organizations

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The X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020 gives insights into the major cybersecurity threats that organizations all over the world face today. It is based on comprehensive data collections, insights from the sharpest experts and extensive research over the past year. 

Through analysis of threat data from hundreds of millions of endpoints, the X-Force Threat Intelligence Index gives security, risk management and IT teams clear insights into attack methods and the weaknesses threat actors attempt to exploit. These insights are key in order to know how to proactively protect your organization from malicious and damaging threats in the best possible way.

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In the report, you can dig deeper into the top trends of the cybersecurity threat landscape over the past year:

  • Targeting and initial infection vectors, including major growth rates in Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure attacks.
  • Malware trends, including automated multi-stage ransomware infection-attacks, making it low-cost for threat actors.
  • Spam and phishing trends, covering everything from spam victims by geography to phishing impersonated tech companies.

Furthermore, it is discussed how you prepare for resilience towards cybercriminals in 2020.

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If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at Kaja.Narum@ibm.com

Business Unit Leader Security, Nordic

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