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The article focuses on the prediction of the top cyber-trends in 2017. It states that the hackers will be taking the path of least resistance in the upcoming year, and more cyber-aatacks and data breaches will take place within the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It also states that the container isolation will be adopted more for its security benefits.

The article discusses the decline in confidence in cyber-security, with IT professionals giving cyber-security confidence a C-grade for 2017. A core element of the Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card is the Risk Assessment Index, which measures an organization's ability to assess cyber-security risks across 11 IT infrastructure components. Respondents were asked about their optimism for the future of security and their organization's ability to defend itself against cyber-attacks.

The article reports that according to the third quarter State of the Internet Security report submitted by cloud service provider Akamai Technologies Inc., Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and web application attacks have increased in the third quarter of 2016. It states that on average there were 30 DDoS attacks per target, and the top DDoS attack of 623 Gbps was directed against security blogger Brian Krebs.

The article reports how distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in quarter 2 declined in the U.S. In the second quarter, the average peak attack size was reported at 17.37G bps, which is a sequential decline from the 19.37G bps reported in the first quarter of 2016. Verisign reported that 64 percent of attacks employed multiple attack types, with 9 percent making use of five or more attack types in a combined DDoS operation.

The article reports that a study by Arbor Networks Inc. has found that massive Denial of service attacks (DDoS), are becoming a disturbing trend. In 2015, there were 16 DDoS attacks that were more than 200G bps, while in the first half of 2016 alone, there already have been 446. The top target for DDoS attacks is Port 80, used for Hyper Text transport Protocol (HTTP) and in second place is Domain Name Systems (DNS. The most Targeted Nation is the U.S. followed by South Korea and China.

The article reports how average cost per data from malicious and criminal attacks was reported to be $221 per record in the U.S. as compared to the global average cost per lost or stolen record being $158 in 2016.

The article reports on an increase in the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in cloud services provider Akamai Technologies during the first quarter of 2016. Topics mentioned include a decline in the average DDoS attack duration from the first quarter of 2015 to 2016, the largest DDoS reported attack in Akamai in the first quarter of 2016, and China as the top source for DDoS attacks.

The article discusses how companies can boost their enterprise security program. Topics covered include the importance of cybersecurity to the successful operations of enterprises and the risks posed by cyberattacks to companies. Also mentioned are the different important ways to enhance the security defenses of firms.

The article highlights the companies and products making news at the RSA Conference held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from February 29 to March 4, 2016. Topics covered include the acquisition of the company Resilient Systems by IBM, the launch of the Anti Targeted Attack Platform and the Security Intelligence Services (SIS) by Kaspersky Lab, and the collaboration between BT and Intel Security to create solutions for improving security and prevent cyber-attacks.

The article reports that according to the report, Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) released by software firm Arbor Networks there is an increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2015 and presents several charts on the same. Topics include DDoS affecting internet connectivity, web server Port 80 targeted the most, the use of NetFlow-based analyzers by organizations to detect threats; and domain name system (DNS) and Network Time Protocol (NTP) affected by DDoS.

The article reports on a study conducted by the cloud service provider Akamai on the increasing attempts of security risks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with the increasing broadband speeds. Topics discussed include 149G-bps attack observed against a gaming industry customer, several countries that were the source of attacks such as Great Britain and China; and the transport method used by most of the attacks was Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

The article presents a second-quarter State of the Internet Report (SOTI) conducted by the cloud computing service provider Akamai on the status of Internet security and bandwidth with some key changes in cyber attack traffic. The report shows that the prevalence of attacks against server port 80 has been double from the first quarter of 2014. It reports on an increase in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) reflection attacks and rise in bandwidth speeds on the Internet.

The article examines key findings from the 2014 Trustwave Global Security report released May 21, 2014 which include the fact that the U.S. is both the top source for attack traffic and the most attacked country. Other topics discussed include a downward trend in Spam to 70% in 2013, the password "1234567" as the most popular among victims of the Pony botnet and Java vulnerabilities toping the most prevalent exploits detected by Trustwave.