Very little in life grabs our attention like a shiny new object. The gleam can be irresistible, the glitter mesmerizing. That’s how it is in cybersecurity, where the landscape is almost always dotted with alluringly novel hazards.

Governments and energy and utility organizations worldwide are focusing increasingly on cyber security, and with good reason.1 Attacks on critical infrastructure like fuel, electricity and drinking water supply

The information and communication technology (ICT) industry has evolved greatly over the last several decades. The increasingly interconnected nature of ICT devices and systems, along with modern society’s dependence on the technologiesand services this sector provides

The good news? In 2016, the manufacturing sector clients monitored by IBM® Security Services experienced fewer attacks than our clients across all industries. The bad news?

Threat actors use botnets—networks of infected computers—for various cybercriminal purposes, most significantly distributed denial of service attacks against predefined targets.

The financial services sector has been a magnet for cybercrime for over two decades now, and that was certainly true again in 2016.

Cybercrime is a year-round, opportunistic crime, but some of the trends that affect rises in spam and fraud are driven by seasonal events. The most significant seasonal trend in that regard is Tax Season.

With Internet-shattering distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, troves of records leaked through data breaches, and a renewed focus by organized cybercrime on business targets, 2016 was a defining year for security.