SPYCLOUD RESOURCES
Insights from the criminal underground that help you get ahead of the latest threats
How 360 Privacy consolidated their tech stack while expanding their service offerings with SpyCloud
LendingTree, the nation’s largest financial lending marketplace, works to stay ahead of cyberattacks and protects sensitive business-critical information with SpyCloud Employee ATO Prevention.
With Session Identity Protection, Atlassian now protects its more than 250K cloud customer accounts from session hijacking, automatically, with zero operational overhead.
A biomedical research firm protects its employee accounts from account takeover and ransomware with SpyCloud’s automated Enterprise Protection solutions.
This Fortune 50 computer manufacturer and retailer incorporated SpyCloud’s automated consumer fraud risk analytics into their security technology stack to reduce manual review and enhance fraud investigations.
An ecommerce marketplace uses SpyCloud Consumer ATO Prevention to reduce ATO fraud, avoid fraud losses, and reduce resources dedicated to ATO prevention.
Atlassian protects its employees and customers from cyberattacks with SpyCloud’s solutions, reducing resource hours spent researching Atlassian’s potential involvement in public breaches and securing its brand reputation.
This Fortune 100 financial services company protects millions of financial services consumers from account takeover fraud with SpyCloud, while also enriching their online fraud investigations with SpyCloud data.
A global professional services firm uses SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian to monitor the credentials of over 6,000 employees across all of the company’s global offices, as well as service providers enrolled in their Active Directory.
With SpyCloud, this global fintech platform has been able to automate consumer account takeover prevention at scale, protect thousands of users infected with credential-stealing botnets, and enrich their predictive models and investigations.
SpyCloud enabled a global managed services provider to expand the value of their offering by adding credential monitoring services and increasing the quality of their threat intelligence reports—all without hiring additional staff.
Zscaler is a cloud-based security company that is completely transforming the way companies approach information security.
With few resources to dedicate to account takeover prevention, this large US university was settling for a mediocre security solution that required too much manual effort.
With few internal resources or sufficient tools to identify and remediate exposed student, faculty and staff email accounts, OU was at constant risk for accounts being compromised.
Discovering exposed user credentials across the global networking company’s many domains proved to be challenging using old, redundant, and undecrypted password data from an incomplete solution.
Preventing account takeover begins with monitoring the dark web, but without the ability to match user accounts with a database of exposed credentials, a top 10 travel booking site was vulnerable to attack.
Preventing a security breach that impacts their customer data is a top priority, yet without credential exposure monitoring & reporting, this company was at constant risk.
- Tools
Darknet Exposure Check
Identify threats to your organization including third-party breach exposures, malware-infected employees and consumers, password reuse, and more.
- Tools
Password Exposure Check
Test any password to see how many times it has appeared on the darknet, meaning it’s unsafe to use.
Cybercriminals are exploiting users' digital exhaust. Use this checklist to adapt your prevention strategy in the face of rising identity-based attacks.
Learn how SpyCloud Consumer Risk Protection helps you navigate modern account takeover methods by strengthening account security and reducing risk.
SpyCloud Enterprise Protection integrates with security tools you’re already using and scales with the threat landscape – backed by analytics
derived from the industry’s largest repository of recaptured data. See how it works.
Post-Infection Remediation is SpyCloud’s new, critical addition to malware infection response. This guide goes in-depth on how to stop malware exposures from becoming full-blown ransomware incidents.
Get the latest password guidelines from NIST and see how SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian automates implementation.
Ransomware is a top cybersecurity challenge for organizations today. Use this handy checklist to inform your ransomware prevention strategy as attackers evolve their techniques.
Handy guide to decipher what it means when employee or consumer information appears on a botnet log, and how to contact infected users with an action plan.
When your consumers' passwords appear in a third-party breach, the language you use to notify them that their passwords must be reset requires careful consideration.
Our guide includes a 20-item checklist of topics to discuss with each ATO prevention vendor you're evaluating.
See the newest research, trends & statistics relating to identity exposure & identity threats. Read the 2025 report & benchmark your identity security approach today.
The 2024 SpyCloud report uncovers today’s malware and ransomware resurgence. See top threats and what security teams are prioritizing to prevent attacks.
Each year, SpyCloud analyzes the billions of identity assets we recapture from the darknet and shares data breach, malware & identity threat insights in this report. Here’s what we found.
As cybercriminals continue to reap rewards from ransomware attacks, how are security teams keeping pace? Download this year’s report for insights on new trends, attack precursors, and critical defense gaps.
SpyCloud’s new report reveals gaps that exist in malware remediation practices and what enterprises can do to slam the door on cybercriminals seeking to harm your business via infostealer malware.
This year’s analysis of stolen identity data tied to Fortune 1000 companies uncovered shocking amounts of breach and malware-exfiltrated assets that put large enterprises at risk of ransomware and other critical cyber threats.
Read how the more than 100M breach assets and malware-exfiltrated cookie records tied to FTSE 100 companies and their subsidiaries on the darknet make these large UK enterprises susceptible to cyberattacks.
With nearly half of our data coming from botnets last year, our annual report of recaptured darknet data features key trends about malware and identity exposure.
Learn why account-centric security is failing & why teams are shifting to proactive identity threat protection – using a holistic identity lens to understand user exposures that put enterprises at risk.
Examining the state of password security today and the challenges facing passwordless solutions, this SpyCloud report offers clear guidance on protecting your user accounts without having to reinvent the wheel.
Malware infections siphon valuable data like fresh credentials and web session cookies, giving bad actors the virtual keys to your enterprise. SpyCloud breaks down malware infections and offers context around the steps criminals take with malware-stolen data, and what can be done to stop this insidious threat.
How can merchants best balance the customer experience and fraud prevention? Our report offers a new approach for merchants to differentiate between low- and high-risk customers.
FIs must strike a balance between prevention controls and fraud mitigation while ensuring a quality customer experience. Our report delves into a new framework for understanding the risk that each individual consumer presents at key points in their journey.
SpyCloud and the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) created this consumer education document to help you understand what identity theft is & how to prevent it.
As stolen credentials have become more accessible on the dark web, so has the ability to compromise legitimate business email accounts to commit fraud.
Understand how hackers combine attack methods and stolen credentials to sidestep multi-factor authentication.
We tap our expertise in helping organizations recover exposed credentials to help you understand the anatomy of credential stuffing attacks, why they persist, and what you can do to prevent them.
You can’t stop ATO until you understand it. Get this plain-English primer on the latest attack methods, bad habits that increase ATO risk, and strategies for prevention.
Preparing for the Inevitable: Strengthening Incident Response in a Rapidly Evolving Threat Landscape
This live webcast will cover how to unite IT, identity, and security teams to strengthen incident response, reduce risk, and build cyber resilience before the next attack strikes.
In this webinar we'll unpack the latest phishing tactics and show how recaptured phished data lets you protect vulnerable users and block follow-on attacks.
This webinar explores the latest malware trends uncovered by our SpyCloud Labs team, and how these insights help security teams enable proactive measures to secure corporate access.
This demo/webinar shows how SpyCloud Investigations revolutionizes your analyst and investigators impact.
Hear from SpyCloud Labs researchers how Chinese cybercriminals are accessing, exfiltrating, and trading vast amounts of PII, with international impact.
This webinar breaks down the most important findings from SpyCloud’s 2023 Ransomware Defense Report, and what your organization can do to get ahead of emerging cyber threats.
On-Demand Webinar: Unveil the top darknet exposure trends for London’s FTSE 100 companies, including insights on password reuse, stolen session cookies and cloud app exposures
On-Demand Webinar: We break down the latest trends related to identity exposure in the criminal underground and how this data puts organizations and consumers at risk of cybercrime.
On-Demand Webinar: Learn about a new, more complete and more effective approach to preventing ransomware called Post-Infection Remediation.
On-Demand Webinar: Learn how stolen data makes its way from small circles of bad actors to the dark web and how to identify legitimate consumers interacting with your site vs. criminals leveraging stolen data.
On-Demand Webinar: Benchmark your ransomware preparedness & discover proactive strategies to solve your defense blindspots.
On-Demand Webinar: A detailed look at how anti-detect browsers + malware-stolen data put consumers at risk of fraud, and how Session Identity Protection helps protect your bottom line by offering early warning of malware-infected consumers with compromised web session cookies.
Security leaders who have been through worst-case scenarios offer real-world advice for stronger breach prevention & response. Get the audio file or watch the panel webinar on-demand.
Learn how credential stuffing works and get insights into the tools of the trade (including some very sophisticated custom Nintendo crimeware). Discover why stolen accounts that don’t have obvious monetary value can be profitable for cybercriminals.
See malware from the criminal perspective, including how the data collected from infected machines gets monetized. Learn how to shield your organization from the damage caused by credential-stealing malware.
A summary of top DIB contractor darknet exposures that put federal government entities at risk.
A summary of the stolen identity data circulating the criminal underground – and the threat actor tactics putting organizations most at risk.
See how deep and pervasive the identity exposure problem is for your employees and consumers today.
See the latest malware and ransomware trends, including top infostealers and industries most at risk of ransomware attacks.
See the stolen data trends that are putting higher ed institutions at high risk of cyber threats and attacks.
A summary of the stolen data SpyCloud recaptured from the criminal underground in 2023.
An analysis of the average digital identity exposed and traded in the criminal underground.
See the stolen data trends that are putting government entities at high risk of cyber threats and attacks.
How malware can lead to a ransomware attack in just 6 short steps.
The 7 steps of a successful session hijacking attack.
- Video
2025 SpyCloud Report: Holistic Identity Exposure Trends
Cybercriminals aren’t just stealing credentials anymore. Learn about the shift from user-centric attacks to the sophisticated identity-based attacks that take advantage of a broad & growing range of darknet exposures.
- Video
The Power of SpyCloud Investigations
See how you can leverage SpyCloud Investigations to build comprehensive cybercrime investigations and protect your enterprise from identity-based attacks stemming from your employees, customers, and suppliers’ darknet exposures.
- Video
Continuous Zero Trust with SpyCloud
Traditional Zero Trust policy engines only test the validity of users and devices when they first access the network, missing the vast amount of identity, device, and access information that criminals already have.
- Video
Reverse Engineering Atomic macOS Stealer
Find out how Atomic macOS Stealer works, what this malware family steals, and what defenders should be on the lookout for when it comes to spotting Atomic Stealer infections.
- Video
The Mother of All Breaches Data Leak
In this video, our team at SpyCloud Labs discusses the monumental “Mother of All Breaches” (MOAB) Data Leak that shook the security community. Watch to learn about the 26 billion record data leak, the extensive analysis by SpyCloud Labs, and highlights covering the intriguing findings.
- Video
360 Privacy | SpyCloud Customer Success Story
Hear how 360 Privacy leverages SpyCloud’s suite of holistic identity protection solutions to protect more than 1,800 individuals and their digital footprints – reducing risk from dark web exposures and protecting against targeted attacks.
- Video
Webinar: Access Granted: The reality of compromised credentials in a passwordless world
Explore the evolution of authentication and scrutinize common myths around passwordless technology.
- Video
Webinar: From Zero to Hero: What Your Security Team Can Unlock with Actionable Data
Learn how actionable data analytics from SpyCloud helps your security team scale, use resources more efficiently, and shorten investigation time.
- Video
Webinar: C is for Cookie: The Missing Ingredient in your Zero Trust Recipe
Learn how to address a common Zero Trust implementation gap that is leaving organizations vulnerable to targeted attacks: users’ stolen session cookies.
- Video
Webinar: An Inside Look at Game-Changing Threats in 2024
In this webinar, we cover top trends from the SpyCloud 2024 Identity Exposure Report. Learn about the identity threats putting organizations everywhere at risk.
- Video
Webinar: Consumer or Criminal? An inside look at SpyCloud’s Consumer Risk Protection for Financial Services
This demo/webinar shows how SpyCloud helps financial organizations safeguard consumer digital identities and stop high-risk attacks tied to malware.
- Video
Webinar: Consumer or Criminal? An inside look at SpyCloud’s Consumer Risk Protection
This demo/webinar shows how SpyCloud helps eCommerce organizations safeguard consumer digital identities and stop high-risk attacks tied to malware.
- Video
Webinar: Preserving Account Integrity and Reducing ATO Risk
This webinar shows how having insight into compromised customer darknet data can prevent account takeover, forecast targeted attacks, and predict fraud tied to malware.
- Video
Webinar: Journey to the Underground: Insights Into What’s Fueling Ransomware in 2024
This webinar breaks down the most important findings from The SpyCloud 2024 Malware and Ransomware Defense Report and what your organization can do to get ahead of emerging cyber threats.
Case Studies
How 360 Privacy consolidated their tech stack while expanding their service offerings with SpyCloud
LendingTree, the nation’s largest financial lending marketplace, works to stay ahead of cyberattacks and protects sensitive business-critical information with SpyCloud Employee ATO Prevention.
With Session Identity Protection, Atlassian now protects its more than 250K cloud customer accounts from session hijacking, automatically, with zero operational overhead.
A biomedical research firm protects its employee accounts from account takeover and ransomware with SpyCloud’s automated Enterprise Protection solutions.
This Fortune 50 computer manufacturer and retailer incorporated SpyCloud’s automated consumer fraud risk analytics into their security technology stack to reduce manual review and enhance fraud investigations.
An ecommerce marketplace uses SpyCloud Consumer ATO Prevention to reduce ATO fraud, avoid fraud losses, and reduce resources dedicated to ATO prevention.
Atlassian protects its employees and customers from cyberattacks with SpyCloud’s solutions, reducing resource hours spent researching Atlassian’s potential involvement in public breaches and securing its brand reputation.
This Fortune 100 financial services company protects millions of financial services consumers from account takeover fraud with SpyCloud, while also enriching their online fraud investigations with SpyCloud data.
A global professional services firm uses SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian to monitor the credentials of over 6,000 employees across all of the company’s global offices, as well as service providers enrolled in their Active Directory.
With SpyCloud, this global fintech platform has been able to automate consumer account takeover prevention at scale, protect thousands of users infected with credential-stealing botnets, and enrich their predictive models and investigations.
SpyCloud enabled a global managed services provider to expand the value of their offering by adding credential monitoring services and increasing the quality of their threat intelligence reports—all without hiring additional staff.
Zscaler is a cloud-based security company that is completely transforming the way companies approach information security.
With few resources to dedicate to account takeover prevention, this large US university was settling for a mediocre security solution that required too much manual effort.
With few internal resources or sufficient tools to identify and remediate exposed student, faculty and staff email accounts, OU was at constant risk for accounts being compromised.
Discovering exposed user credentials across the global networking company’s many domains proved to be challenging using old, redundant, and undecrypted password data from an incomplete solution.
Preventing account takeover begins with monitoring the dark web, but without the ability to match user accounts with a database of exposed credentials, a top 10 travel booking site was vulnerable to attack.
Preventing a security breach that impacts their customer data is a top priority, yet without credential exposure monitoring & reporting, this company was at constant risk.
Tools
- Tools
Darknet Exposure Check
Identify threats to your organization including third-party breach exposures, malware-infected employees and consumers, password reuse, and more.
- Tools
Password Exposure Check
Test any password to see how many times it has appeared on the darknet, meaning it’s unsafe to use.
Guides
Cybercriminals are exploiting users' digital exhaust. Use this checklist to adapt your prevention strategy in the face of rising identity-based attacks.
Learn how SpyCloud Consumer Risk Protection helps you navigate modern account takeover methods by strengthening account security and reducing risk.
SpyCloud Enterprise Protection integrates with security tools you’re already using and scales with the threat landscape – backed by analytics
derived from the industry’s largest repository of recaptured data. See how it works.
Post-Infection Remediation is SpyCloud’s new, critical addition to malware infection response. This guide goes in-depth on how to stop malware exposures from becoming full-blown ransomware incidents.
Get the latest password guidelines from NIST and see how SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian automates implementation.
Ransomware is a top cybersecurity challenge for organizations today. Use this handy checklist to inform your ransomware prevention strategy as attackers evolve their techniques.
Handy guide to decipher what it means when employee or consumer information appears on a botnet log, and how to contact infected users with an action plan.
When your consumers' passwords appear in a third-party breach, the language you use to notify them that their passwords must be reset requires careful consideration.
Our guide includes a 20-item checklist of topics to discuss with each ATO prevention vendor you're evaluating.
Research Reports
See the newest research, trends & statistics relating to identity exposure & identity threats. Read the 2025 report & benchmark your identity security approach today.
The 2024 SpyCloud report uncovers today’s malware and ransomware resurgence. See top threats and what security teams are prioritizing to prevent attacks.
Each year, SpyCloud analyzes the billions of identity assets we recapture from the darknet and shares data breach, malware & identity threat insights in this report. Here’s what we found.
As cybercriminals continue to reap rewards from ransomware attacks, how are security teams keeping pace? Download this year’s report for insights on new trends, attack precursors, and critical defense gaps.
SpyCloud’s new report reveals gaps that exist in malware remediation practices and what enterprises can do to slam the door on cybercriminals seeking to harm your business via infostealer malware.
This year’s analysis of stolen identity data tied to Fortune 1000 companies uncovered shocking amounts of breach and malware-exfiltrated assets that put large enterprises at risk of ransomware and other critical cyber threats.
Read how the more than 100M breach assets and malware-exfiltrated cookie records tied to FTSE 100 companies and their subsidiaries on the darknet make these large UK enterprises susceptible to cyberattacks.
With nearly half of our data coming from botnets last year, our annual report of recaptured darknet data features key trends about malware and identity exposure.
Whitepapers & Ebooks
Learn why account-centric security is failing & why teams are shifting to proactive identity threat protection – using a holistic identity lens to understand user exposures that put enterprises at risk.
Examining the state of password security today and the challenges facing passwordless solutions, this SpyCloud report offers clear guidance on protecting your user accounts without having to reinvent the wheel.
How can merchants best balance the customer experience and fraud prevention? Our report offers a new approach for merchants to differentiate between low- and high-risk customers.
FIs must strike a balance between prevention controls and fraud mitigation while ensuring a quality customer experience. Our report delves into a new framework for understanding the risk that each individual consumer presents at key points in their journey.
SpyCloud and the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) created this consumer education document to help you understand what identity theft is & how to prevent it.
As stolen credentials have become more accessible on the dark web, so has the ability to compromise legitimate business email accounts to commit fraud.
Understand how hackers combine attack methods and stolen credentials to sidestep multi-factor authentication.
We tap our expertise in helping organizations recover exposed credentials to help you understand the anatomy of credential stuffing attacks, why they persist, and what you can do to prevent them.
You can’t stop ATO until you understand it. Get this plain-English primer on the latest attack methods, bad habits that increase ATO risk, and strategies for prevention.
Webinars
Preparing for the Inevitable: Strengthening Incident Response in a Rapidly Evolving Threat Landscape
This live webcast will cover how to unite IT, identity, and security teams to strengthen incident response, reduce risk, and build cyber resilience before the next attack strikes.
In this webinar we'll unpack the latest phishing tactics and show how recaptured phished data lets you protect vulnerable users and block follow-on attacks.
This webinar explores the latest malware trends uncovered by our SpyCloud Labs team, and how these insights help security teams enable proactive measures to secure corporate access.
This demo/webinar shows how SpyCloud Investigations revolutionizes your analyst and investigators impact.
Hear from SpyCloud Labs researchers how Chinese cybercriminals are accessing, exfiltrating, and trading vast amounts of PII, with international impact.
This webinar breaks down the most important findings from SpyCloud’s 2023 Ransomware Defense Report, and what your organization can do to get ahead of emerging cyber threats.
On-Demand Webinar: Unveil the top darknet exposure trends for London’s FTSE 100 companies, including insights on password reuse, stolen session cookies and cloud app exposures
On-Demand Webinar: We break down the latest trends related to identity exposure in the criminal underground and how this data puts organizations and consumers at risk of cybercrime.
On-Demand Webinar: Learn about a new, more complete and more effective approach to preventing ransomware called Post-Infection Remediation.
On-Demand Webinar: Learn how stolen data makes its way from small circles of bad actors to the dark web and how to identify legitimate consumers interacting with your site vs. criminals leveraging stolen data.
On-Demand Webinar: Benchmark your ransomware preparedness & discover proactive strategies to solve your defense blindspots.
On-Demand Webinar: A detailed look at how anti-detect browsers + malware-stolen data put consumers at risk of fraud, and how Session Identity Protection helps protect your bottom line by offering early warning of malware-infected consumers with compromised web session cookies.
Security leaders who have been through worst-case scenarios offer real-world advice for stronger breach prevention & response. Get the audio file or watch the panel webinar on-demand.
Learn how credential stuffing works and get insights into the tools of the trade (including some very sophisticated custom Nintendo crimeware). Discover why stolen accounts that don’t have obvious monetary value can be profitable for cybercriminals.
See malware from the criminal perspective, including how the data collected from infected machines gets monetized. Learn how to shield your organization from the damage caused by credential-stealing malware.
Infographics
A summary of top DIB contractor darknet exposures that put federal government entities at risk.
A summary of the stolen identity data circulating the criminal underground – and the threat actor tactics putting organizations most at risk.
See how deep and pervasive the identity exposure problem is for your employees and consumers today.
See the latest malware and ransomware trends, including top infostealers and industries most at risk of ransomware attacks.
See the stolen data trends that are putting higher ed institutions at high risk of cyber threats and attacks.
A summary of the stolen data SpyCloud recaptured from the criminal underground in 2023.
An analysis of the average digital identity exposed and traded in the criminal underground.
See the stolen data trends that are putting government entities at high risk of cyber threats and attacks.
How malware can lead to a ransomware attack in just 6 short steps.
The 7 steps of a successful session hijacking attack.
Videos
- Video
2025 SpyCloud Report: Holistic Identity Exposure Trends
Cybercriminals aren’t just stealing credentials anymore. Learn about the shift from user-centric attacks to the sophisticated identity-based attacks that take advantage of a broad & growing range of darknet exposures.
- Video
The Power of SpyCloud Investigations
See how you can leverage SpyCloud Investigations to build comprehensive cybercrime investigations and protect your enterprise from identity-based attacks stemming from your employees, customers, and suppliers’ darknet exposures.
- Video
Continuous Zero Trust with SpyCloud
Traditional Zero Trust policy engines only test the validity of users and devices when they first access the network, missing the vast amount of identity, device, and access information that criminals already have.
- Video
Reverse Engineering Atomic macOS Stealer
Find out how Atomic macOS Stealer works, what this malware family steals, and what defenders should be on the lookout for when it comes to spotting Atomic Stealer infections.
- Video
The Mother of All Breaches Data Leak
In this video, our team at SpyCloud Labs discusses the monumental “Mother of All Breaches” (MOAB) Data Leak that shook the security community. Watch to learn about the 26 billion record data leak, the extensive analysis by SpyCloud Labs, and highlights covering the intriguing findings.
- Video
360 Privacy | SpyCloud Customer Success Story
Hear how 360 Privacy leverages SpyCloud’s suite of holistic identity protection solutions to protect more than 1,800 individuals and their digital footprints – reducing risk from dark web exposures and protecting against targeted attacks.
- Video
Webinar: Access Granted: The reality of compromised credentials in a passwordless world
Explore the evolution of authentication and scrutinize common myths around passwordless technology.
- Video
Webinar: From Zero to Hero: What Your Security Team Can Unlock with Actionable Data
Learn how actionable data analytics from SpyCloud helps your security team scale, use resources more efficiently, and shorten investigation time.
- Video
Webinar: C is for Cookie: The Missing Ingredient in your Zero Trust Recipe
Learn how to address a common Zero Trust implementation gap that is leaving organizations vulnerable to targeted attacks: users’ stolen session cookies.
- Video
Webinar: An Inside Look at Game-Changing Threats in 2024
In this webinar, we cover top trends from the SpyCloud 2024 Identity Exposure Report. Learn about the identity threats putting organizations everywhere at risk.
- Video
Webinar: Consumer or Criminal? An inside look at SpyCloud’s Consumer Risk Protection for Financial Services
This demo/webinar shows how SpyCloud helps financial organizations safeguard consumer digital identities and stop high-risk attacks tied to malware.
- Video
Webinar: Consumer or Criminal? An inside look at SpyCloud’s Consumer Risk Protection
This demo/webinar shows how SpyCloud helps eCommerce organizations safeguard consumer digital identities and stop high-risk attacks tied to malware.
- Video
Webinar: Preserving Account Integrity and Reducing ATO Risk
This webinar shows how having insight into compromised customer darknet data can prevent account takeover, forecast targeted attacks, and predict fraud tied to malware.
- Video
Webinar: Journey to the Underground: Insights Into What’s Fueling Ransomware in 2024
This webinar breaks down the most important findings from The SpyCloud 2024 Malware and Ransomware Defense Report and what your organization can do to get ahead of emerging cyber threats.