Cybersecurity

Verizon's comprehensive report on data and insights from confirmed breaches. Includes links to webinars, industry reports, and other resources.

Cyber security insights and technical expertise from Mandiant.

Symantec's threat reports and additional resources.

Get the latest insights about the threat intelligence landscape and guidance from frontline experts at Microsoft.

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.

IEEE developed IEEE DataPort to provide a secure platform for researchers, data analysts, and the global technical community to easily access, store, manage, and share research data. Note: GW affiliates currently only have access to free datasets from IEEE.

An extensive list of data sources from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

The NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. The NVD includes databases of security checklist references, security-related software flaws, product names, and impact metrics.

The Security Datasets project is an open-source initiatve [sic] that contributes malicious and benign datasets, from different platforms, to the infosec community to expedite data analysis and threat research. For more information: https://securitydatasets.com/introduction.html

The Sophos AI team is excited to announce the release of SOREL-20M (Sophos-ReversingLabs – 20 million) – a production-scale dataset containing metadata, labels, and features for 20 million Windows Portable Executable files, including 10 million disarmed malware samples available for download for the purpose of research on feature extraction to drive industry-wide improvements in security. This dataset is the first production scale malware research dataset available to the general public, with a curated and labeled set of samples and security-relevant metadata, which we anticipate will further accelerate research for malware detection via machine learning.

Digital Attack Map is a live data visualization of DDoS attacks around the globe, built through a collaboration between Google Ideas and Arbor Networks. The tool surfaces anonymous attack traffic data to let users explore historic trends and find reports of outages happening on a given day.