F5 Labs’ analysis, which examined customer security incident response (SIRT) data from 2017-2019, covered banks, credit unions, brokers, insurance, and the wide range of organisations that serve them, such as payment processors and financial Software as a Service (SaaS).

An analysis of global customer security incident data from the past three years – both mobile and landline – also found that brute force attacks, though still prevalent, are on the wane.