The 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) includes 621 confirmed data breaches, as well as over 47,000 reported security incidents. Verizon wrote, “More than 95% of all attacks tied to state- affiliated espionage employed phishing as a means of establishing a foothold in their intended victims systems” The traditional email and web content security vendors have responded poorly to the phishing threat vector. FireEye found phishing to be the primary APT attack vector and saw a 56% increase over Q1 of 2012.”]

