The 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) continues the tradition of change with additions that we hope will help paint the clearest picture yet of the threats, vulnerabilities, and actions that lead to security incidents, as well as how they impact organizations suffering them. In the new “Before and Beyond the Breach” section, our security data scientists analyzed (literally) dozens of terabytes of data from partners new and old, making this one of the most collaborative, data-driven information security (InfoSec) reports in existence. If you’re accustomed to reading the DBIR mainly for the headliners and one-liners, you might need to coffee up and put your thinking cap on for this one. But it’ll be worth it; we promise. Fret not, “Incident Pattern” aficionados—the nefarious nine are back, but they have slimmed down a bit, as you’ll see when you get to that section.