MULTI__2019__2019-data-breach-investigations-report.pdf

The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) analyzes data from over 100,000 incidents and 2,013 breaches across industries, highlighting nine incident patterns, prevalent attacker methods (especially phishing and credential theft), and evolving vectors such as a shift from POS to web-app breaches. It reveals the dominance of financially motivated and diverse threat actors, the prominence of internal actors in healthcare, and industry-specific exposure of data varieties, while stressing the need for multi-factor authentication, robust access controls, and proactive detection/response to reduce losses from breaches and business email compromises.