Industries most targeted by web application attacks 2021

Between November 2020 and October 2021, the financial industry was the most targeted by basic web application attacks worldwide. Institutions in this sector saw 226 such incidents in the measured period. The second was healthcare with 173 attacks, while the professional sector ranked third experiencing 164 incidents.

Global industry sectors most targeted by basic web application attacks from November 2020 to October 2021

Characteristic	Number of incidents
Finance	226
Healthcare	173
Professional	164
Public Administration	158
Information	144
Manufacturing	112
Education	63
Transportation	41
Other Services	34
Entertainment	30
Construction	28
Retail	28
Mining and Utilities	22
Real Estate	21
Accomodation	19
Administrative	6

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May 2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021

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excluding incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: " All incidents included in this report were reviewed and converted (if necessary) into the VERIS framework to create a common, anonymous aggregate data set.
The incident must have at least seven enumerations (e.g., threat actor variety, threat action category, variety of integrity loss, et al.) across 34 fields OR be a DDoS attack. Exceptions are given to confirmed data breaches with less than seven enumerations . The incident must have at least one known VERIS threat action category (hacking, malware, etc.).
We also exclude incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss."

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