Forecasts and recommendations: Elastic 2023 Global Threat Report Spring

Staying up-to-date on the current state of security and the implications of the threat landscape is critical to any security professional. In late 2022, Elastic published its inaugural global threat report: a summary of threat trends, forecasts, and recommendations based on analyzing millions of telemetry events shared by users around the world.

Threat intelligence resources like the 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report are critical to helping security teams evaluate their organization’s visibility, capabilities, and expertise in identifying and preventing cybersecurity threats. It also helps answer questions such as:

The threat report included six key forecasts and recommendations for strategists and practitioners to stay better informed of potential directions that threat actors may focus on in 2023 and beyond.

The new 2023 online and interactive Spring Edition version of this report was recently introduced and includes additional data—findings that were both forecasted and unexpected.

First, let’s talk about malware:

Next, consider these cloud observations:

But there were also a few new findings:

Defense evasion is still the top tactic for endpoint, credential access is still king of cloud, and malware trends have stayed pretty consistent. Check it out yourself and learn a little bit about how Elastic’s Canvas technology simplifies visualization.

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