Data breaches, which reached over 3,200 in the U.S. in 2023, pose significant financial and reputational risks to businesses. Despite global spend on cybersecurity, breaches persist due to complex and varied attacks, resourceful threat actors, and large corporate attack surfaces. Threats can come from human errors, malicious insiders, and nation-state actors, and can be through phishing, vulnerability exploitation, stolen credentials, or supply chain attacks. Businesses can mitigate these risks with strategies like asset mapping, patching, security software, encryption, and employee education.

Anne Arundel government has made progress in securing systems since cyber incident, officials say – CBS News
Anne Arundel County government officials have reported making progress in securing systems following a cyber incident. Specific details of the incident were not provided, but