Nearly 2,000 breaches were analyzed in this year’s Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report and more than 300 were espionage-related. Here are some of the comments Help Net Security received on the report.

Today’s report highlights that businesses must rethink their protection strategies to guard against cyber attacks. The fact that 88% of breaches identified in the report fall into patterns first identified in 2014 is an illustration of the need for businesses to identify and properly secure their critical data and assets against attack.