Hackers attack organizations almost every 40 seconds, exposing over 5 billion records in the first half of 2020. The document argues that threat intelligence is crucial for organizations as malicious emails often use common file types like Office documents to spread malware and spear phishing targets internal employees. It notes that most companies do not properly protect sensitive files and accounts, with most employees having access to millions of non-password protected files and many accounts using non-expiring passwords. Therefore, threat intelligence is necessary to help organizations identify vulnerabilities and strengthen their cybersecurity.

1. WHY THREAT
INTELLIGENCE IS
A MUST FOR EVERY
ORGANIZATION?
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2. Hackers attack every 39 seconds on
average 2,244 times a day
Data breaches exposed 5.1 BILLION records
in the first half of 2020
Average cybersecurity spending
per employee is $1,178
DATA BREACHES BY
NUMBERS
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3. HOW DO CYBERATTACKS
HAPPEN?
48% of malicious email attachments are
Office files
65% of groups used spear phishing as the
primary infection vector
34% of data breaches involved
internal employees
94% of malware was delivered
by email
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4. WHY MUST
ORGANIZATIONS CONSIDER
THREAT INTELLIGENCE?
53% of companies had over 1,000
sensitive files open to every employee
On average, every employee had access
to 17 MILLION files
Only 5% of folders were properly
protected
61% of companies have over 500
accounts with non-expiring passwords
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