A new report by Black Book Market Research predicts that data breaches in the healthcare industry are likely to triple in volume in the coming year.  The "2020 State of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Industry" report surveyed over 2,400 security professionals.

A recent global study by Tanium of 1,000 CXOs reported on the effects of COVID-19 on enterprise and government organizations. 90 percent of those surveyed said they experienced an increase in cyberattacks due to the pandemic. But at the same time, a greater number of survey respondents––93 percent––said they had to delay key security projects in order to work on the transition to remote work forced by the pandemic.

A new study by Debate Security finds that the efficacy problems in cyber security are more related to economic issues rather than technology issues.  It found that companies when evaluating which cyber security software to purchase, didn't include evaluating efficacy of the solution as a consistent factor in deciding to choose and implement a solution.

A recent study by CrowdStrike showed more cyberattacks in the first six months of this year than in all of 2019 in the network activity of Crowdstrike customers.  It's a trend that's been confirmed by other recent studies done this year.

Earlier this year, in March of 2020, CSO Online published an article on the key facts and figures around cyber security for 2020, including the astonishing fact that 60% of attacks were on vulnerabilities that had patches available.