# The Cyber Security Place

> Cyber security news and analysis — breaches, ransomware, phishing, cloud and
> application security, compliance — with a directory of security vendors and
> consultants. Entries summarise reporting from the trade press and link to the
> original article at the publication that wrote it.

Every page on this site is also available as Markdown: append `.md` to the URL.
For example `/category/software_security/` is served as
`/category/software_security.md`.

Article summaries are quoted from the publication credited on each page. The
original article is always linked. Cite the original publication, not this site.

## Guides

Long-form explainers, reviewed and dated. Each one is also available as Markdown
at the same path with a `.md` suffix. The index at https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/ lists each
one with the finding it is built on.

- [Data breaches](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/data-breaches/) — 918 archive entries
- [Malware](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/malware/) — 753 archive entries
- [Ransomware](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/ransomware/) — 636 archive entries
- [Scams against people](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/scams/) — 730 archive entries
- [Phishing](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/phishing/) — 491 archive entries
- [Passwords & authentication](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/authentication/) — 276 archive entries
- [Machine identity](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/machine-identity/) — 402 archive entries
- [AI agents](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/ai-agents/) — 388 archive entries
- [Vulnerabilities & patching](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/vulnerabilities/) — 872 archive entries
- [Availability & resilience](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/availability/) — 513 archive entries
- [Encryption & privacy](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/encryption/) — 421 archive entries
- [IoT & connected devices](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/iot/) — 301 archive entries
- [Critical infrastructure](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/critical-infrastructure/) — 114 archive entries
- [Healthcare](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/healthcare/) — 233 archive entries
- [Incident response](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/incident-response/) — 66 archive entries
- [Financial services](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/financial-services/) — 316 archive entries
- [Zero trust & remote access](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/zero-trust/) — 304 archive entries
- [Supply chain risk](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/supply-chain/) — 187 archive entries
- [Security awareness](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/security-awareness/) — 293 archive entries
- [People & skills](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/workforce/) — 408 archive entries
- [Insider risk](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/insider-risk/) — 630 archive entries
- [Security leadership](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/security-leadership/) — 611 archive entries
- [Cyber insurance](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/cyber-insurance/) — 174 archive entries
- [State actors & espionage](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/topics/nation-state/) — 174 archive entries

## Reference

Lookup pages rather than argument. The glossary, the timeline and the directory are
the ones most likely to answer a question directly.

- [News](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/news/)
- [Search the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/search/)
- [Answers](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/answers/)
- [All questions](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/questions/)
- [Glossary](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/glossary/)
- [Vendor directory](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/directory/) — 886 entries
- [Listings A–Z](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/listings/) — 886 entries
- [All tags](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/tag-cloud/)
- [Calculators](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/tools/)
- [Timeline 2014–2026](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/timeline/)
- [Browse by year](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/)

## How these figures are produced

Every number on this site is computed while the page is built, from the archive
described above, and seven automated checks stop the build if a page cannot support
itself. The checks verify provenance and structure, never accuracy. The known defects
in the record are published rather than hidden, and one conclusion has been withdrawn.

- [How this site checks itself](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/method/)
- [What was known, and when it was told](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/intelligence/) — the lag between disclosure and coverage, joined from four public records

## Archive years

Written pieces about a single year, counted from the entries this archive holds for
it rather than from memory of the year. Each states what it measures and what it does
not.

- [2014 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2014/) — 345 entries
- [2015 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2015/) — 2,997 entries
- [2016 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2016/) — 2,277 entries
- [2017 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2017/) — 2,368 entries
- [2018 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2018/) — 1,758 entries
- [2019 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2019/) — 1,687 entries
- [2020 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2020/) — 1,891 entries
- [2021 in the archive](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/archive/2021/) — 1,628 entries

## Sections

- [Industry & market](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/industry-insights/) (1831 entries): Vendors, funding, consolidation and the economics of the security business.
- [Application security](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/software_security/) (1350 entries): Vulnerabilities, patching, secure development and the software that runs the business.
- [Network & infrastructure](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/hardware_security/) (717 entries): Perimeter, routing, denial of service, and the hardware everything else sits on.
- [Fraud & identity theft](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/identity_theft/) (571 entries): Credential abuse, account takeover, and the fraud that follows a breach.
- [Compliance & regulation](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/it-compliance/) (518 entries): Regulation, audit, data protection law and what auditors actually ask for.
- [Vendor news](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/vendor-news/) (464 entries): Product releases, acquisitions and announcements from security suppliers.
- [Cloud security](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/cloud_computing/) (415 entries): Shared responsibility, misconfiguration, and securing what you do not own.
- [Endpoint & mobile](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/mobile_computing/) (359 entries): Phones, laptops and the devices that carry company data out of the building.
- [AI & security](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/artificial-intelligence/) (172 entries): Machine learning in defence and in attack, and the risks of the models themselves.
- [BYOD & data](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/byod-bigdata/) (101 entries): Personal devices at work, and the governance of data at scale.
- [Expert articles](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/expert-articles/) (80 entries): Contributed analysis from practitioners, at greater length than a news summary.
- [Network security](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/network_security/) (27 entries): Segmentation, monitoring and controlling traffic between systems.
- [Software security](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/software-security-2/) (15 entries): Vulnerabilities and defensive practice in application code.
- [Other](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/uncategorized/) (10 entries): Entries filed without a section.
- [Editorial](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/editorial/) (4 entries): Comment and opinion.
- [Events](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/category/events/) (2 entries): Conferences, briefings and industry gatherings.

## Coverage

- Entries: 15,376
- Date range: 2014-07 to 2021-11
- Vendor and consultant listings: 886
- Topic tags: 2,094

## Most cited sources

- helpnetsecurity.com (1156)
- infosecurity-magazine.com (449)
- itproportal.com (310)
- forbes.com (175)
- information-age.com (162)
- csoonline.com (161)
- itsecurityguru.org (158)
- informationsecuritybuzz.com (156)
- securityweek.com (102)
- darkreading.com (100)
- cisomag.eccouncil.org (95)
- business2community.com (88)

## Machine-readable index

- [Sitemap](https://thecybersecurityplace.com/sitemap-index.xml)
- Markdown for any page: append `.md` to its URL