Latin America Edition

2024 Thales Data Threat Report

Navigating New Threats and Overcoming Old Challenges

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Insights into new technologies, their security implications and the organizational changes for success ahead

In this report, we share key findings from the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), focused on the Latin America (LATAM) region, and briefly discuss differences between LATAM and global responses, along with enterprise observations and a summary of the threat landscape. Many of the LATAM 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.
Sebastien Cano Senior Vice President Cloud Protection & Licensing Thales
Sebastien Cano

Key Findings

Data Breach Trends and Threats

Ransomware attacks are more common,

with 29% experiencing an attack (up from 21% last year), but planning in the event of an attack is still poor.

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Risks to Emerging Technologies

The generative AI boom is underway:

17% plan to integrate GenAI into products/services in the next 12 months.

Compliance and Sovereignty Concerns

Key management systems usage

average declined in LATAM, from 5.8 to 4.8, a 14% reduction.

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Increasing DevOps Challenges

Over half (57%) 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
63%

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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 (72%) are the leading interest.

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