When dealing with today’s expanding threat landscape, you can minimize both the risk and the impact of threats by constraining your adversarie’s operational space and their ability to compromise assets. One measure you can take is simplifying your collection of security tools into an interconnected and integrated security architecture. This Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report presents research, insights, and perspectives from recent security research and highlights the relentless push–and–pull dynamic between adversaries trying to gain more time to operate and defenders working to close the windows of opportunity that attackers try to exploit.