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How about we don't allow blatant commercial posts by companies on this subreddit?

Why not? A good visualisation is a good visualisation, regardless of who produced it for what reason.

We've got ads on web pages, ads in phone notifications, ads in paid subscription TV shows, do we really also need the OC to be ads too?

If you use that as a metric this sub will die. Everybody is selling something. A visualisation is by nature telling a story. That's its entire purpose. If we start limiting what story is allowed, we might as well close down the sub.

There's a pretty easy distinction to make: "Posts that can be considered advertising for a for-profit company are not allowed".

Want to sell a story just cause you think it's interesting? Sure. Make a post because you want my money? Fuck off.

It's not really a useful visualisation though and the title of the submission is a bit scarier than it should be. Some mismatch between what happens in the industry and what is covered in the news is expected as "miscellenaous errors" is probably not as exciting for most readers as system intrusion. If you look at the mismatch with academia, things get worse: it's not super clear if those keywords were cited as examples in the academic papers, or if they were the principal topic the papers were addressing, or wheter they were used as the easiest benchmark/baseline to show an idea works etc...

Without explaining some factors like these, the figure doesn't really teach us anything and given the title, it looks like they just want to click bait you to go to their website.

I understand your points, but that could be fixed with enforcing the data source requirements.

So far I've not seen any data sources for this post.

Data source?

See comment above or visit the link to get all the information that doesn’t fit here!

DOS is not a data breach.

There is no comment from you or any link.

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Data source: Data compiled from research using sources like the Verizon DBIR, scite.ai, API's from the New York Times and The Guardian, and Google Trends and Search Tools. The full methodology, sources, and assumptions can be found at www.hivesystems.io/perception

Tool used: Illustrator and Excel

Hi everyone - I'm back again with our 2022 update to our data breach perceptions graphic! Another year of data from the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) showed that what people are reading about and seeing online doesn't align to how data breaches are actually happening. It's a good visual for companies who may be investing in risk reduction strategies for the wrong threats based on what they see/hear about out in the world!

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True. It can be part of a breach but is rare which is why the share is so small in the DBIR column. It is an incident type that gets a lot of hype despite rarely resulting in data exfiltration.

I don't like commercial things in general but I do like the idea of people getting paid for doing research and visualization instead of having to keep shelling them out for free.

Those are good points. They are covered in the page cited in the infographic. I like to include all detail within a visualization but then people tell us the graphic is "too busy".