2023 Data Breach Investigations Report
Keep your security plan up to date and help protect your organization—with access to in-depth analysis on recent cyber threats and data breaches.
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Here’s a preview of some of the new cybersecurity data uncovered by this year’s DBIR.
83%
of breaches involved external actors—with the majority being financially motivated.
74%
of breaches involved the human element, which includes social engineering attacks, errors or misuse.
50%
of all social engineering attacks are pretexting incidents—nearly double last year’s total.
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2023 DBIR Executive Summary
This year’s report includes data and insights from 5,199 confirmed breaches.
2023 DBIR Key Insights
Learn seven important takeaways that can help protect your organization.
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2023 DBIR Key Findings
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2023 DBIR: Apply the Findings
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2023 DBIR and VERIS: Incident Reporting
Take a deep dive into incident reporting and how the VERIS (Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing) Framework supports the DBIR.
2023 DBIR for Public Sector
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2023 DBIR: Small and Medium Business
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2023 DBIR: Public Sector
Mitigating cybersecurity risk is crucial in the Public Sector. Discover new ways to help protect your organization.
Read DBIR insights by industry.
2023 DBIR:
Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies continues to be a lucrative target for hacking by external actors. Learn more in the 2023 DBIR Manufacturing snapshot.
2023 DBIR:
Healthcare
Healthcare and Social Assistance organizations are being targeted at an alarming rate. Learn more in the 2023 DBIR Healthcare snapshot.
2023 DBIR:
Retail
Being in Retail means your business has the additional responsibility of protecting payment card data, and criminals know this. Learn more in the 2023 DBIR Retail snapshot.
2023 DBIR:
Energy and Utilities
Mining, Quarrying, Oil & Gas Extraction and Utilities companies are seeing complex attacks on their technology. Learn more in the 2023 DBIR Energy and Utilities snapshot.
2023 DBIR:
Finance
Bad actors are gaining access to important Finance and Insurance company data without much effort. Learn more in the 2023 DBIR Finance snapshot.
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2022 DBIR
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