How to mature your cybersecurity programme Security leaders have long wanted to tackle their most pervasive issues. These include exponential growth of the attack surface and cyber risks as well as diminishing control of a rapidly changing technology landscape — all against the backdrop of a severe talent shortage. Skybox’s new report, Vulnerability and threat trends 2021: Cybersecurity comes of age, demonstrates that there is a need for greater maturity. It brings focus to just how energised threat actors have become over the pandemic: Extraordinarily, new malware samples almost doubled over 2020. It highlights how operational technology (OT) environments are increasingly exposed to attack: The number of vulnerabilities within industrial Internet of things (IIoT) devices increased by 308% over the last year. And it reinforces the scale of the task now facing teams dealing with cyber-risk management: There were 18 341 new vulnerabilities over 2020, adding to the exposure from prior years’ discoveries.