Cybersecurity Coverage Statistics

Original analysis of our own accumulated coverage — not a syndicated report. Every figure below is a live, real-time aggregate computed directly from our source-verified story record. See our editorial methodology for how stories are classified, scored, and verified.

944 Stories tracked
6 Categories covered
6.8/10 Average impact score
751 Distinct source publishers

Coverage by Category

Story count per category, all-time. Download full dataset (CSV).

Volume vs. Impact: Where the Headlines Aren't the Story

Our most-covered category isn't our most consequential one: Security generates the most stories (350), but Vulnerabilities carries the highest average impact score (7.3/10) despite far fewer stories (63). Coverage volume and consequence are different signals.

Story volume → Average impact → Data Breaches Ransomware Regulation Security Threat Intelligence Vulnerabilities

Sentiment Distribution

Directional read of 944 classified stories — the development's implication for the space, not the tone of the reporting. Download sentiment dataset (CSV).

Negative
44%
Neutral
29%
Positive
14%
Strongly negative
12%
Strongly positive
1%

Most-Mentioned Entities

Ranked by distinct story mentions, all-time — the companies, people, and technologies our coverage returns to most often. Download entities dataset (CSV).

  1. 1 Anthropic company
    139
  2. 2 Iran country
    132
  3. 3 Donald Trump person
    104
  4. 4 OpenAI company
    102
  5. 5 United States government
    70
  6. 6 CISA organization
    56
  7. 7 Google company
    53
  8. 8 Claude product
    47
  9. 9 Israel country
    44
  10. 10 Pentagon organization
    40
  11. 11 Hugging Face company
    34
  12. 12 FBI organization
    33
  13. 13 Pete Hegseth person
    25
  14. 14 Mythos 5 product
    24
  15. 15 Meta company
    24
  16. 16 Microsoft company
    24
  17. 17 APT33 threat-actor
    24
  18. 18 Artificial Intelligence technology
    23
  19. 19 AI technology
    23
  20. 20 Russia country
    22
  21. 21 Dario Amodei person
    20
  22. 22 GPT-5.6 Sol product
    20
  23. 23 Department of Homeland Security company
    20
  24. 24 Trump Administration government
    19
  25. 25 China country
    19

Source Diversity

Distinct publisher coverage and total source records across 944 tracked stories. Download source diversity dataset (CSV).

751 Distinct source publishers
1,282 Total source records

How This Page Is Computed

Every figure on this page is a live SQL aggregate over our own accumulated story and entity records — never a manual estimate or a syndicated third-party statistic. Category and sentiment figures cover all stories ever tracked in this niche; the entity ranking counts distinct story mentions above our minimum relevance threshold (see methodology). Found a discrepancy? Email hello@getcyberbrief.com.

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"Cybersecurity Coverage Statistics: 944 Stories Analyzed." Cyber Intelligence Brief. https://getcyberbrief.com/statistics