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ALA NOVA Features RTL Blog Post

June 7, 2017

Recently, the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) of Northern Virginia featured a Ride the Lightning post on the News section of their website. The post, “Highlights: Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report” is just what it sounds like. Ride the Lightning is an electronic evidence and cybersecurity blog by Sensei’s Sharon Nelson.

Excerpt: It’s always a challenge to boil down the stats and takeaways from Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The report is based on data from more than 42,000 security incidents and nearly 2,000 breaches across 84 countries. Here are some of major highlights.

• Cybercriminals are targeting smaller companies. 61% of the data breach victims in this year’s report have fewer than 1,000 employees.
• 1 in 14 users fall for phishing e-mails. 25% of them fall more than once.
• 51% of the data breaches involved malware. Ransomware is now the 5th most common form of malware involved in data breaches and the first in what the report calls the Crimeware pattern.

Read the entire post here.