2024 Thales Data Threat Report
Navigating New Threats and Overcoming Old Challenges
Insights into new technologies, their security implications and the organizational changes for success ahead
As economic uncertainty continues and the threat landscape grows more complex, enterprises are working to address increasing regulatory mandates while improving their security posture. In this report, we share key findings from the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), focused on the Europe and Middle East (EME) region, and we briefly discuss differences between EME and global responses, along with enterprise observations and a summary of the threat landscape. Many of the EME DTR results were close to the global responses, but we call out key differences.
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Companies that had a good handle on their compliance processes and passed all of their audits were less likely to suffer from a breach. We’ll start to see more compliance and security functions coming together. This would be a huge positive step to strengthen cyber defenses and build protection around the data itself.
Key Findings
Data Breach Trends and Threats
Ransomware attacks are more common,
with 27% experiencing an attack (up from 21% last year), but planning in the event of an attack is still poor.
Risks to Emerging Technologies
The generative AI boom is underway:
23% plan to integrate GenAI into products/services in the next 12 months.
Compliance and Sovereignty Concerns
Key management systems usage
average slightly declined in EME, from 6.0 to 5.8, down only 3%
Increasing DevOps Challenges
Over half (55%) cited secrets management as a top DevOps challenge.
Identity Complexities and Compromise
Achieving security consistency within CIAM
initiatives was the number one cited challenge at 59%
Risks to Emerging Technologies
Prototyping post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
is the primary approach to address the future compromise of classical encryption techniques. “Harvest now, decrypt later” attacks (70%) are the leading interest.
2024 Thales Data Threat Report
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