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The 2023 Verizon DBIR is out — get your copy now

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Dissent

Verizon’s top-notch annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is out.

You can jump to the Executive Summary of the report, download the entire report, or view it online.

Here is its seven key insights infographic, below. Of the seven key insights, the figure that stands out the most to me is 74%:

74% of all breaches include the human element through Error, Privilege Misuse, Use of stolen credentials or Social Engineering

2023-dbir-infographic

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