Verizon Business
Annual analysis of confirmed security breaches and incidents. Classifies attack patterns, actors, motives and targeted assets by industry. It is the industry's common language for describing modus operandi, widely reused in underwriting documentation.
Aggregation of tens of thousands of incidents reported by a broad consortium of contributors, normalised under the VERIS framework. Coverage depends on contributor composition, introducing a visibility bias toward detected and shared incidents.
Use to frame sector-level threat scenarios and justify portfolio segmentation. Foundational reading for any cyber underwriter and any article documenting attack-pattern frequency.