Annual breach and incident cost reports from industry analysts and named-incident postmortems. Primary sources: Verizon DBIR (every year since 2015), Ponemon/IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, and incident-specific records (Anthem, Equifax).
| Group | Organizations / series |
|---|---|
| Annual industry reports | Verizon DBIR 2015–present, Ponemon/IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2018–2023 |
| Named-incident records | Anthem (2016), Equifax (GAO 2018, Senate 2019, SEC filing) |
| Resilience / posture surveys | Ponemon Cyber Resilient Organization, State of SMB Cybersecurity, State of Endpoint Security |
Filter CATALOG.csv by content_type=breach-report. Organizations covered: Verizon, IBM, Ponemon, Anthem, Equifax, GAO.
awk -F',' '$4=="breach-report"' ../CATALOG.csv- All documents are derivative Markdown conversions — verify against original PDFs (source_url in frontmatter) for anything relied on operationally.
- Multi-year series are useful for trend analysis; DBIR methodology changes are documented in each year's introduction.