CyberProof’s 2026 threat report reviews 2025 intrusions, highlighting identity abuse, SaaS integration compromise, rapid enterprise vulnerability exploitation, and operational disruption. It recommends stronger help-desk verification and OAuth controls.
NetDiligence analyzed 10,309 cyber claims from 2021–2025. Ransomware and business email compromise accounted for nearly 64% of SME claims of at least $1,000 in 2025, while large companies represented 56% of total incident costs.
Sysdig’s 2026 report analyzes anonymized customer telemetry and Falco usage data from 2025, highlighting cloud-native security trends: AI package growth, persistent vulnerable workloads, increased behavior-based detection and automated response, and identity risks.
Hornetsecurity’s 2026 report draws on over 72 billion processed emails, finding malware emails rose 131% in 2025. It also reports increased ransomware victimization and warns of AI governance gaps and identity threats.
Snyk’s 2026 survey report says misconfigurations and unpatched vulnerabilities were leading cloud-native incident drivers. Organizations with more deployment automation were more likely to test security frequently and fix vulnerabilities faster.
Toc Consulting’s 2026 AWS security whitepaper examines identity misconfigurations, S3 ransomware, and agentic AI risks, with practical controls, audit checklists, and a 90-day hardening roadmap.
NETSCOUT recorded over 9.1 million DDoS attacks in 1H 2026. Attacks exceeding 1Tbps or 1Gpps rose 1,286% year over year, while direct-path methods and residential proxy sources complicated selective mitigation.
Orange Cyberdefense’s 2026 report presents incident, response-time, vulnerability-scanning and SMB detection data, alongside trends in hacktivism, cyber extortion and digital sovereignty.
Picus analyzed over 338 million attack simulations from January–June 2026. Overall prevention reached 69%, but only 37% of post-compromise actions were blocked, while the alert rate remained at 14%.
Saviynt’s 2026 report, based on a survey of 235 security and IT leaders, finds widespread AI identity access but limited visibility, monitoring, and governance. It recommends identity inventories, least privilege, and continuous oversight.
Zscaler ThreatLabz’s 2026 executive report covers AI security risks in Australia and New Zealand, citing red-team tests in which all tested AI systems failed and recommending stronger governance, continuous testing, and least-privilege access.
NMFTA’s 2026 transportation cybersecurity report links credential compromise and social engineering to cargo theft, warns of shared-vendor risks, and anticipates greater reliance on data theft for extortion rather than encryption.
Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report describes faster AI-assisted intrusions, agent identity and memory risks, and persistent cloud espionage. It urges rapid patching, least-privilege access, and monitoring of AI activity.
GuidePoint’s GRIT tracked 7,515 publicly posted ransomware and extortion victims in 2025, up 58%, across 124 groups. Its annual report examines perimeter exploitation, payment outcomes and growing BYOVD adoption; victim claims were not validated by victims.
SANS | GIAC's survey of 947 global respondents finds skills gaps outweigh staffing shortages as a workforce concern. AI is reshaping security roles, while training constraints and demand for experienced hires complicate workforce development.
Beazley Security's Q1 2026 report links 74% of investigated ransomware intrusions to compromised remote-access credentials, details TeamPCP's supply chain campaign, and reports a 43% quarterly rise in CISA KEV additions.
Datadog’s DevSecOps report analyzes tens of thousands of applications and finds widespread exploitable vulnerabilities, aging dependencies, and risky rapid software adoption. It recommends safeguards including dependency cooldowns and pinning GitHub Actions to commit SH
Expel's analysis of nearly a million alerts from 2025 found identity involved in 68.6% of customer incidents. The report highlights stolen credentials, ClickFix malware delivery, trojanized productivity apps, and exposed cloud secrets.
Latio’s 2026 application security report finds developer experience leads tool-selection priorities, while 56% want better cloud and runtime context. It examines AI code guardrails, supply chain protection and remediation challenges.
RedHelix’s 2026 outlook covers AI-enabled threats, identity compromise, ransomware, expanding cloud, IoT and supply-chain exposure, and tighter regulation. It recommends stronger identity controls, AI governance, monitoring and resilience.
Black Duck’s 2026 OSSRA report analyzed 947 commercial codebases and found average vulnerability counts rose 107% to 581. It also identified widespread outdated dependencies and gaps in component visibility and AI-generated code governance.
INTERPOL’s 2026 assessment draws on responses from 36 African countries and vendor telemetry to examine 2025 cybercrime trends, highlighting mobile money fraud, critical-infrastructure ransomware and gaps in cross-border investigations.
Datadog’s 2026 study of thousands of organizations using AWS, Azure and Google Cloud finds persistent long-lived credentials and excessive permissions, alongside uneven adoption of cloud security guardrails.
Surveys cited by Gravitee report limited visibility and access controls for enterprise AI agents, with organizations reporting unauthorized behavior and security incidents. The article recommends agent inventories, scoped authorization, monitoring, and audit trails.
