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Q1 2019 Introduction and Overview
It’s time once again to head back out into the wilds
of the cyber threat landscape to review another
quarter of mischief and mayhem. Thank you for
choosing us as your guide, and we look forward to
spending the next dozen-ish pages helping to get you
caught up on important Q1 events and prepared for
the future. Here’s a quick synopsis of the attractions
we’ll visit this quarter:
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before diving to 1005 to end 2018. Q1 2019 exhibits
more volatility than previous quarters (especially
for malware), but the extent of those shifts is not
unprecedented. Overall, the Index rose a little over
1% during the quarter to close at 1017. n
Threat Landscape Index
We developed the Fortinet Threat Landscape Index
(TLI) in mid-2018 to answer the seemingly simple,
yet deceptively difficult, question of “Is it getting
better or worse out there?” Generally speaking, the
TLI is based on the premise that things are getting
worse if more of our sensors detect a wider variety of
threats or a higher volume (doubly so if we see both).
If the opposite is true, then the cyber landscape is
less threatening. Perhaps most importantly, it shows
the rate of those changes over time and helps draw
attention to the forces driving them.
As seen in Figure 1, the TLI started its run at a value
of 10002 and hit an early December peak of 1032
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