This presentation is based on the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report1 (DBIR) and will be delivered by Mark Goudie, one of the co-authors of the report. The DBIR is a collaboration between the United States Secret Service Cyber Intelligence Section and Verizon Business to collect and analyse what we believe to be the world’s largest study of data breaches consisting of over 900 cases and 900 million compromised records across six years. We have learned a great deal from this journey and we’re glad to have the opportunity to share these findings with you. As always, our goal is that the data and analysis presented in this report prove helpful to the planning and security efforts of the audience. To ensure we provide an informative and balanced view, the presentation will show the effects of these attacks from two perspectives, firstly the number data breaches and the number of records, or pieces of data stolen.