It’s difficult to follow the news without hearing about the dangers posed by online criminals. Users of the online auction services provided by eBay Inc. were told Wednesday that they have to change their account passwords because hackers broke into company databases. If incidents like this highlight gaps in your company’s cybersecurity preparedness, a timely new report from Trustwave Holdings Inc. offers a wealth of data to help stop the next attack.

The “2014 Trustwave Global Security Report” analyzes information from 691 data breach investigations Trustwave conducted in 2013 across 24 countries, along with the threat intelligence that the company has gathered, shedding light on the nature of the cyberrisks facing companies and the challenges of trying to stay ahead of the bad guys.