Threat landscape analysis maps cyber risks, adversary methods, and exposed weaknesses to help assess security priorities and potential impact.
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The threat landscape is the changing set of cyber threats, adversaries, techniques, vulnerabilities, and exposed assets that may affect an organization or sector. It covers more than malware: phishing and credential theft, exploitation of internet-facing systems, abuse of cloud identities, supply-chain compromise, and disruptive or extortion-driven attacks can all be relevant. Its value lies in showing which threats are plausible for a particular environment, rather than treating every reported attack as equally important.
Security teams use threat intelligence to connect observed adversary activity with their own assets, technologies, and business processes. This supports vulnerability management by prioritizing flaws that are exposed or actively exploited, while attack-surface monitoring identifies unnecessary public services and privileged accounts. The landscape also guides detection engineering, control testing, and incident-response preparation: teams can decide which behaviors to monitor, which access paths to restrict, and which scenarios require rehearsed containment. Because threats and defensive conditions change, assessments should be refreshed as new vulnerabilities, techniques, and organizational dependencies emerge.
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According to ExtraHop’s latest threat landscape report, average ransomware payments surged 44% to $3.6m in 2025 despite fewer incidents
Adversaries are prioritizing stealth over scale, according to OPSWAT’s latest Threat Landscape Report
According to the 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report from FortiGuard, threat actors are executing 36,000 scans per second
EU security agency ENISA has released a new report outlining the threats and potential mitigations for the space sector
A new report by Red Canary has found that while cybersecurity budgets have risen, many security leaders still feel overwhelmed by the growing threat landscape
Cybersecurity leaders should prioritize response and recovery over prevention to effectively navigate the ever-evolving threat landscape, according to Gartner analysts
Higher average token prices are the likely cause of the surge rather than a change in the crypto threat landscape
Well-funded cybercriminals are adopting more sophisticated techniques, creating a need for defenders to stay informed about the evolving threat landscape
The MOVEit hack, OpenAI service targeting and Android spyware top the threat landscape in H2 2023, according to ESET
The findings come from DoControl’s latest SaaS Security Threat Landscape report
Kroll’s Q3 2022 Threat Landscape report showed an unprecedented increase in insider threats
The EU cybersecurity agency released its 10th annual threat landscape report on November 3, 2022
Marsha Quallo-Wright, deputy director for critical national infrastructure at the NCSC, discusses the latest cyber threat trends impacting the UK
The cyber-threat landscape continues to evolve at a breakneck pace