[OC] There appears to be a widening gap between cyber attack causes and public perception/interest

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1. Hi everyone – I’m back again with the 2024 update to our cyber attack perceptions chart! What is interesting for the news, at conferences, in academia, and even what we Google – appears to be widely different than the actual causes of cyber attacks. This chart is a good visual to show people why our biases may be affecting what our companies are investing in – but ultimately it’s just one of many tools we can use to set better cybersecurity strategy!

   **Data source:** Data compiled from research using multiple APIs, research, and Google dorking. The methodology, assumptions, and more data can be found at[ http://www.hivesystems.com/perception%5D(http://www.hivesystems.com/perception)

   **Tools used:** Illustrator and Excel

2. Highly surprising to me that social engineering isn’t higher

3. Wild how Privilege Misuse and Miscellaneous Errors aren’t even covered in the media.

4. How did you evaluate searches for “Miscellaneous Error” and “Everything Else”? These are such broad categories!

5. Breaches vs incidents don’t seem to be analogous to New York Times vs Guardian. It seems like your are comparing various different things that aren’t the same. If you averaged the pairs of columns into one comparison aspect, then the data would be much easier to read and inaccurate interpretations would be less likely.

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