Elastic's 2024 Global Threat Report Reveals Key Cybersecurity Trends
The Futurum Group, Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Elastic Security Labs' 2024 Global Threat Report details significant trends in the cybersecurity landscape, focusing on the misuse of offensive security tools, cloud security vulnerabilities, and increasing credential access attacks
With recommendations for enhancing defenses, the report underscores the importance of auditing cloud configurations, monitoring credentials, and leveraging generative AI for defense strategies.
What is Covered in this Article:
- Key findings from the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report
- Offensive security tools (OSTs): misuse and impact
- The rise of cloud security misconfigurations
- Credential access attacks, particularly on cloud and endpoints
- The role of generative AI in both offense and defense
The News: The 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report, published by Elastic Security Labs, highlights the most critical threats and trends organizations must prepare for in the upcoming year. The report identifies the growing use of offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, which account for over 54% of observed malware.