Cybersecurity Resources and Bibliography
Many of the vendors and customers we cover also provide excellent cybersecurity research reports. From time to time, we’ll quote from these reports, because this our objective is to comment on market forces and not to make quantitative assessments of breaches and security incidents. So, by way of disclosure, here are many of the reports we draw on for quantitative cybersecurity data. Note that these reports generally don’t always agree on exact numbers, but security trends can absolutely be seen.
Accenture & World Economic Forum
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025
https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2025/
Crowdstrike
Global Threat Report 2024
https://go.crowdstrike.com/2025-global-threat-report.html
Delinea
State of Ransomware 2024
https://delinea.com/resources/ransomware-2024-research-report
Elastic
Elastic Global Threat Report
https://www.elastic.co/resources/security/report/global-threat-report
ESET
ESET Threat Reports
https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/threat-reports/
European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
ENISA Threat Landscape
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-space-threat-landscape-2025
Fortinet
FortiGuard Labs Outbreak Alert - Annual Report 2024
https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/outbreak-alert/annual-report-2024
IBM
Cost of a Data Breach Report
https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach
IBM X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index
https://www.ibm.com/reports/threat-intelligence
Mandiant & Google
M-Trends 2025
https://www.mandiant.com/m-trends
Microsoft
Microsoft Security Insider Website
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider
Palo Alto Unit 42
Unit 42 Incident Response Report
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/research/2025-incident-response-report
PWC
2025 Global Digital Trust Insights
SANS
SANS 2025 Threat Hunting Survey
Sophos
Sophos Annual Threat Report
Verizon
2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)