IOCTA: Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment

So the 2019 Europol IOCTA report is out, and you can find it at https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/iocta_2019.pdf

The folks over there presented their findings, breaking it down into specific areas, and provide some vendor neutral recomendations. From the viewpoint of the publisher, we could have easily predicted that one of this years' main appeals, is to recognize that GDPR has deprived law enforcement agencies from having access to crucial data, and subsquently has placed more responsibility upon the shoulders of asset protectors.

Hot topics are Cyber-Dependent Crime, Child Sexual Exploitation Online, Payment Fraud, The Criminal Abuse of the Dark Web, The Convergence of Cyber and Terrorism, and Cross-Cutting Crime Factors.