Critical Infrastructure Edition

2024 Thales Data Threat Report

Navigating New Threats and Overcoming Old Challenges

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2024 DTR Global

Insights into new technologies, their security implications and the organizational changes for success ahead

In this paper, we share key findings from the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) focused on critical infrastructure organizations, examining the differences between critical infrastructure survey respondents and overall global responses across all industry verticals. Unsurprisingly, many of the critical infrastructure DTR survey results were similar to overall responses, but we do note some key differences.

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Companies that had a good handle on their compliance processes and passed all of their audits were less likely to suffer from a breach. We’ll start to see more compliance and security functions coming together. This would be a huge positive step to strengthen cyber defenses and build protection around the data itself.
Sebastien Cano Senior Vice President Cloud Protection & Licensing Thales
Sebastien Cano

Key Findings

Data Breach Trends and Threats

Ransomware attacks are more common,

with 24% experiencing an attack (up from 20% 2 years ago), but planning in the event of an attack is still poor.

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Risks to Emerging Technologies

The generative AI boom is underway:

26% plan to integrate GenAI into products/services in the next 12 months.

Compliance and Sovereignty Concerns

Key management complexity

57% have five or more key management systems.

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Increasing DevOps Challenges

Over half (56%) cited secrets management as a top DevOps challenge.

Identity & Access Management

Agnostic access management solution

can best protect multi-cloud environments according to
36%

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Risks to Emerging Technologies

Prototyping post-quantum cryptography (PQC)

is the primary approach to address the future compromise of classical encryption techniques. “Harvest now, decrypt later” attacks (69%) are the leading interest.

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