Organizations around the world tend to build cybersecurity defense strategies that are based on an assessment of risks these organizations are more likely to encounter and the extent to which they plan to handle each of these risks. Based on these definitions, as well as the business and operational attributes, organizations create cybersecurity defense programs that include concepts, technologies, appropriate personnel, methodologies, incident response plans, insurance coverage and more.
It is common to divide threat actors into three categories — individual attackers, cybercrime groups, and nation-state attackers. These days, organizations around the world allocate many resources to cybersecurity, with budgets reaching tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars in large enterprises.