As the world continued to grapple with the challenges of 2020, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 brought its own set of new challenges. Supply-chain woes in 2021 affected everything from healthcare, the automotive industry and cybersecurity to travel, retail and the food supply.

The year was bookended by two major incidents: the SolarWinds attack in December 2020 and the Log4j vulnerabilities in 2021. In between, ransomware rose dramatically, far surpassing the levels we found alarming in 2020. Most other attack types showed increases as well, including overall malware, which had been on a downward slide for years.

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