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Go to Figure 29 in the DBIR and bookmark it.
'If I had 5 minutes to do something with [the DBIR], I would go right to Figure 29,' Spitler says.
'Take a look at your industry' and check the incident classification patterns there, he says.
So an accommodations business could see right away that 91% of attacks came via POS intrusions, for example.
'That's obviously something occurring in the real world at a very high rate for organizations like me,' he says of the data.
Spitler says this matrix gives organizations a quick read on the real attacks that are happening in their industry, so they can make adjustments accordingly. 'This is one of the most actionable figures we've ever had in the DBIR,' he says.](https://img.deusm.com/darkreading/2015/06/1321053/DBIRPatterns.png)
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Go to Figure 29 in the DBIR and bookmark it.
"If I had 5 minutes to do something with [the DBIR], I would go right to Figure 29," Spitler says.
"Take a look at your industry" and check the incident classification patterns there, he says.
So an accommodations business could see right away that 91% of attacks came via POS intrusions, for example.
"That's obviously something occurring in the real world at a very high rate for organizations like me," he says of the data.
Spitler says this matrix gives organizations a quick read on the real attacks that are happening in their industry, so they can make adjustments accordingly. "This is one of the most actionable figures we've ever had in the DBIR," he says.
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