Research & Reports

Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has long been considered one of the cybersecurity sector’s most essential status reports. The report’s headline finding for 2026 is that vulnerability exploitation has risen to become the most common initial access vector for successful attacks. Nevertheless, enterprises will find another conclusion especially relevant: The human factor continues to…

For the 20th consecutive year, experts at the Ponemon Institute have determined the cost of a data breach at companies and organizations. The outcomes have been published by sponsor IBM in its Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025. For the first time, the latest report also investigates AI-related risks.

These days, 49% of companies that fall victim to ransomware pay ransom to their attackers. This is just one of many interesting findings revealed in the study “The State of Ransomware 2025”, for which an independent market research institute surveyed 3400 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries.

In the past week, Verizon released its 2025 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), curated using data obtained from numerous partners. Already the 18th annual edition, the latest report once again underscores that highly effective technical safeguards against phishing, pretexting and business email compromise (BEC) have long been essential for organizations.

For decades, the Radicati Group has been the leading analyst firm for all things email. In their brand-new 2025 Secure Email Market Quadrant, the experts have classified Retarus as a “Top Player”.

The latest edition of IBM’s “Cost of a Data Breach” report has just been published. As in previous years, the Ponemon Institute collected the data for the report, which shows that a data breach currently costs companies USD 4.88 million on average.