This report outlines Latin America and the Caribbean's history of instability but notes recent moves towards democracy and increased global interest. It highlights a shift towards closer ties with China, marked by significant investments across sectors, moving away from traditional relationships with the United States.

In today's volatile financial landscape, cryptocurrencies are both an asset and a liability. While they offer unprecedented freedom and flexibility, they also expose users to a myriad of threats ranging from regulatory shifts to malicious attacks. The landscape is shifting rapidly, and staying informed is crucial.

2023 was a year of wild transformation, most notably with huge advances in the availability of AI technologies, persistent security threats, and economic uneasiness. But how will this affect IT professionals in the field in 2024? In this edition of the biannual SME IT Trends Report, JumpCloud surveyed 1200+ IT professionals across the U.S., U.K., and India for insights on how the industry is faring, how others working in IT are preparing for 2024, and quantitative data on IT budgets, OS usage, AI adoption, and more.

How do your IT challenges, strategies, and priorities stack up to those of your peers? Get insights from 1200+ international SME IT respondents on the trends affecting their teams the most and uncover how they're navigating challenges like economic hardship and increased cyberthreats.

In this comprehensive Q2-2023 report, we reflect on an intensified API threat landscape, underlining prevalent threat vectors, susceptible APIs, and new dimensions in the API security arena. With the inclusion of bug bounty analysis and our inaugural API Security Awards, this report provides granular insights into the current state of API security.

This 2022 recap report looks back at the deteriorating API threat landscape, the most prevalent types of threat vectors, the most vulnerable types of APIs, and much more to provide API security and DevOps teams the data-driven insights needed to improve API security in 2023. One of the main take-aways is that the API threat landscape is becoming ever more dangerous. We make this assessment based on the 2022 data, and specifically these four trends.

The mission of today's security teams is clear: protect the company from emerging cyber threats. What's less clear is how to ensure stakeholders understand the impact of their programs. Traditional security reporting focuses on threats and vulnerabilities and how many were stopped and prevented, but non-technical stakeholders-who are concerned with the business's bottom line and how these threats can impact business continuity-need to know how these activities translate to tangible business values. As risk is tied to revenue, security teams need a simple way to understand and share the real efficacy of their programs with their stakeholders.

Are you overwhelmed by the intricacies of your attack surface? Concerned about the rising risk of vulnerabilities in your and your partners' digital ecosystems? New BitSight research finds that the average vulnerability remediation rate across organizations is about 5 percent per month, sparking concern that the status quo of exposure and vulnerability management is broken. Moreover, organizations face significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities in their extended, third-party ecosystem, and most security leaders do not have the tools to address these emerging threats.

API attacks are on the rise, and WAFs and gateways cannot stop them. A few highlights from our latest Salt Labs report on API security: Download the report now to benchmark yourself and use the findings to improve API security for your company.

The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the fifteenth such report in as many years, leads off with a startling statistic: Credentials are the number one overall attack vector hackers use in data breaches. Use of stolen credentials accounts for nearly half the breaches studied by Verizon, far ahead of phishing and exploit vulnerabilities, which account for 19% and 8% of attacks, respectively. Botnets, the fourth most common entry path for hackers, represent a mere 1% of attacks.