Internet Security Report – Quarter 3, 2021

Cybersecurity is all about staying one step ahead of your adversaries, managing and mitigating risk before threat actors can execute their attack. However, knowing what step to take next is often the most difficult challenge organizations face. In a perfect world we’d all have infinite resources to devote to securing our assets and users, but the unfortunate fact is that is never the case. In lieu of the perfect world, we instead need to know where to focus our attention to receive the biggest return on investment and to do that, we need to understand the latest adversarial tools, tactics, and procedures.

Shared threat intelligence makes the entire security community stronger. Knowledge from cyberattacks affecting organizations can help other organizations know what they need to watch out for. Thanks to WatchGuard partners and customers that have opted in to sharing threat intelligence from their networks, we’re able to build this report with an accurate picture of the current threats targeting midsize and distributed enterprises. Without this valuable data we wouldn’t have visibility into the malware variants and network attacks that adversaries are leveraging, and we wouldn’t be able to help guide you down the path to strong security.

Thanks to the tens of thousands of perimeter appliances that opted in to threat intelligence sharing and tens of millions of endpoints reporting in with the latest blocked threats, the rest of this report will guide you through the real-world attack trends. With those trends, we can offer you defensive strategy guidance on where to focus your attention so you too can stay one step of current threat actors.

Our Q3 2021 report includes:

• The Latest Firebox Feed Threat Trends
• Endpoint Security Trends
• Top Incident – Kaseya Ransomware Attacks
• Defensive Strategies