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Attackers are faster, more automated, and better resourced than ever. The Strobes Threat Landscape Report delivers the strategic threat intelligence security leaders need to align program priorities with actual attacker behavior — not theoretical severity scores.
- Exploitation timeline analysis: median 5 days from CVE to active exploitation
- Top attack vectors in 2024: cloud, identity, APIs, supply chain, and AI-assisted attacks
- Industry-specific threat profiles for financial services, healthcare, technology, and more
- Why CVSS-only prioritization fails — and what to use instead
- Defensive program recommendations derived directly from attacker behavior data
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TheThreatLandscapeHasChangedFasterThanMostSecurityPrograms
The attacker advantage is time. From the moment a vulnerability is disclosed publicly, exploit code can appear within days — and attackers prioritize based on exploitation ease and target prevalence, not CVSS score. Security programs that rely on severity-driven remediation queues are systematically working on the wrong vulnerabilities while attackers exploit the ones that go unpatched.
The threat landscape in 2024 and beyond is defined by five shifts that traditional security programs are not structured to address: AI-assisted attack automation, supply chain compromise as primary access vector, cloud and identity as primary attack surface, API proliferation outpacing security controls, and ransomware ecosystems commoditizing advanced persistent threat techniques.
Six Threat Intelligence Dimensions in This Report
The Threat Landscape Report delivers strategic intelligence across the six dimensions of enterprise risk that are evolving fastest — so your program prioritizes based on real attacker behavior.
Top Exploitation Trends
Which vulnerability classes are being actively weaponized — web application flaws, cloud misconfigurations, identity gaps, supply chain risks — with exploitation timeline data and attacker targeting intelligence.
Attack Surface Shift Analysis
How enterprise attack surfaces are changing: API proliferation, cloud-native architecture, remote access expansion, and SaaS sprawl — and the exposure categories each shift introduces.
AI-Assisted Attack Trends
How threat actors are applying AI to accelerate reconnaissance, automate vulnerability scanning, generate phishing at scale, and reduce the technical barrier for advanced exploitation techniques.
Supply Chain Risk Analysis
The most common supply chain attack vectors in 2024: compromised open-source packages, malicious CI/CD pipeline injections, and SaaS integration abuse — with detection and mitigation guidance.
Identity and Access Threat Intelligence
Identity has replaced network perimeter as the primary security boundary. Analysis of credential theft, privilege escalation, and lateral movement techniques targeting identity infrastructure.
Cloud Exploitation Patterns
The most actively exploited cloud misconfigurations and attack patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP — with remediation priorities mapped to actual exploitation frequency, not theoretical severity.
How the Report Delivers Threat Intelligence
Structured to move from macro threat environment context through specific attack vector analysis to concrete defensive recommendations — designed for use in program planning, board briefings, and budget justification.
Threat Environment Overview
The report opens with a macro analysis of the 2024 threat environment — CVE volume trends, exploit market dynamics, ransomware ecosystem evolution, and nation-state targeting priorities. Contextualized for security leaders preparing annual risk assessments and board briefings.
Exploitation Data Analysis
Deep dive into which vulnerabilities are actually being exploited, in what timeframes, targeting which industries and asset types. Includes EPSS correlation analysis showing the gap between CVSS-predicted and observed exploitation rates.
Attack Vector Deep Dives
Dedicated sections on the five most significant attack vectors of 2024: cloud misconfigurations, identity and credential attacks, supply chain compromise, API exploitation, and AI-assisted reconnaissance. Each includes attacker tactics, detection signals, and prioritized mitigations.
Industry-Specific Risk Profiles
Threat landscape analysis segmented by industry vertical — financial services, healthcare, technology, critical infrastructure — with the sector-specific exploitation patterns, regulatory implications, and high-priority vulnerability classes most relevant to each.
Defensive Posture Recommendations
Concrete security program changes derived directly from the threat data — the detection investments, architectural shifts, and exposure management program characteristics that most effectively counter the evolving attacker playbook.
FiveThreatIntelligenceFindingsThatShouldChangeYourProgramPriorities
The Strobes Threat Landscape Report translates global threat intelligence into security program priorities. Rather than a list of CVEs to patch, the report provides the strategic context security leaders need to make better risk decisions: which attacker techniques are accelerating, which exposure categories are being targeted, and what program characteristics separate organizations that detect and respond quickly from those that discover breaches months after the fact.
Key intelligence from the 2024 Threat Landscape Report:
- Exploitation timelines are compressing year over year — the median days-to-exploit for newly published CVEs fell from 15 days in 2022 to 5 days in 2024, fundamentally changing the window available for risk-based remediation
- AI is shifting the attacker economics — automated reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning allow threat actors to target 10x more potential victims simultaneously, making obscurity a meaningless defense strategy
- Identity is the new perimeter — 68% of enterprise breaches in 2024 involved compromised credentials or misconfigured identity access, making identity exposure management a first-tier security priority
- API attacks grew 137% year over year — API endpoints are the fastest-growing attack surface category, with authentication bypass and broken object-level authorization the most frequently exploited classes
- Supply chain as initial access vector grew 78% — attackers increasingly target third-party software, open-source dependencies, and SaaS integrations to bypass direct perimeter defenses
From CVE publication to active exploitation — down from 15 days in 2022, eliminating traditional patch cycle assumptions.
API exploitation grew 137% year-over-year, making API security a first-tier exposure management priority.
68% of enterprise breaches involved compromised credentials or misconfigured identity access in 2024.
Most exploited CVEs score below 9.0 — proving CVSS-only prioritization systematically focuses effort on the wrong vulnerabilities.
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Head of Vulnerability Management · Enterprise Financial Services
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