For more than 10 years, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has offered insight into global cybersecurity trends, based on an analysis of tens of thousands of security incidents and breaches from around the world.

Last year, my colleague Richard Yew and I analyzed the 2017 DBIR from the perspective of the exterior perimeter, where the cyber defenses of our content delivery network (CDN) sit. For this post, we consider what organizations themselves can do to defend their core infrastructure and what strategies they can employ to keep their perimeter safe.

Here are my 10 key takeaways:

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