A Cybersecurity Insiders survey of 1,253 professionals, supported by Netskope, finds widespread AI security gaps: 94% report incomplete visibility, and only 9% say they can prevent risky agent actions before execution.
Episki’s qualitative 2026 GRC report describes rising regulatory and framework demands, expanding automation, and vendor-risk gaps, with directional budget benchmarks and predictions for 2027.
Bitsight’s 2026 underground report records 6,883 ransomware attack postings in 2025, up 19%, and 2.8 billion newly observed compromised credential sets. It cautions that falling breach and stealer-log counts do not necessarily indicate lower risk.
Wiz’s survey of more than 300 cybersecurity leaders and practitioners finds 85% report rising security spending, yet 56% consider budgets insufficient. Cloud complexity, tool sprawl and demand for automation shape spending priorities.
DNSFilter’s 2026 report analyzes over 52 trillion DNS queries from October 2024–September 2025. It reports 30% growth in identified threats, increased daily threat-query volume, and seasonal phishing targeting shoppers, travelers, and job seekers.
Red Hat’s 2026 survey of 600 IT professionals found 97% reported cloud-native security incidents in the past year. Only 39% reported a mature security strategy, while 59% lacked documented AI policies.
Orca’s analysis of over 1,200 production organizations found vulnerable AI packages at 81.2% of organizations using them, widespread insecure credential storage, and missing agent guardrails. The report urges patching, least privilege, and stronger governance.
CyberEdge’s 2026 survey found 80.7% of participating organizations reported successful cyberattacks in the prior year. Phishing overtook malware as the leading concern, while confidence in defenses rose alongside expectations of future compromise.
Cyble's H1 2026 report tracks over 3,800 ransomware attacks, 367 breach and leak incidents, and 129 initial access listings, highlighting data-theft extortion, exploited perimeter flaws and regional differences in threats.
Bitdefender’s survey of 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals found 55.2% had been told to keep a breach confidential and 47.4% lacked visibility into Shadow AI use. The report also highlights staffing shortages and security-tool complexity.
Darktrace’s 2026 report analyzes 2025 customer telemetry, highlighting identity compromise, cloud abuse and data extortion. It recorded over 32 million high-confidence phishing emails, 70% of which passed DMARC authentication.
Contrast Security’s AppSec Overflow 2026 report finds applications average 22 high or critical vulnerabilities and 42 viable exploit attempts monthly. It also reports slow remediation and inconsistent AI-scanner findings.
A survey of 505 U.S. and U.K. security and IT leaders finds visibility gaps, uneven Zero Trust deployments, and integration and skills constraints impeding SASE operations; 78% favor co-managed or fully managed delivery.
An IntuitionLabs report reviews cybersecurity risks and regulatory requirements for AI-enabled medical devices, highlighting adversarial inputs, training-data poisoning, and the need for lifecycle security controls.
A survey of 588 cybersecurity professionals conducted in August 2023 found widespread cloud-security concerns and gaps in real-time detection, multi-cloud skills, visibility and legacy tools.
BeyondTrust's 2026 report counts 1,273 Microsoft vulnerabilities in 2025, down 6%, but Microsoft-rated critical flaws doubled to 157. Office and cloud products drove the increase, while privilege escalation remained the largest category.
Mandiant’s analysis of 2025 investigations finds exploits remained the leading entry vector at 32%, followed by voice phishing at 11%. Median dwell time rose to 14 days, while ransomware operations increasingly relied on access handoffs.
GreyNoise's 2026 State of the Edge report analyzes 2.97 billion sessions from H2 2025, highlighting sustained edge targeting, previously unseen sources behind 52% of RCE attempts, and emerging attacks on exposed LLM infrastructure.
ConnectWise’s 2026 MSP Threat Report finds that credential abuse, poorly secured VPNs, compromised software and ClickFix drove attacks in 2025. It urges stronger identity controls, execution monitoring and protected backups.
ThreatDown reports an 8% rise in known ransomware attacks in 2025 and says 86% of observed encryption attacks operated remotely. Its annual report examines stealthy intrusions, security blind spots, and emerging AI-assisted attacks.
SailPoint surveyed 100 security and identity leaders at Fortune 500 and Global 2000 firms: 91% said their organization deploys or evaluates AI agents, but only 30% reported complete real-time visibility and 11% fully implemented least privilege.
A 2026 ransomware statistics overview compiles estimates of rising attack volume and $57 billion in 2025 damages, alongside declining ransom payments. It examines costs, entry vectors, extortion trends, and law-enforcement impact.
Orca’s 2026 AppSec report, based on telemetry from over 1,000 production organizations, finds 78% run applications with critical vulnerabilities and 77% retain high or critical container flaws beyond 90 days.
A Cybersecurity Insiders survey supported by Check Point finds 77% of organizations changed security strategy for AI, but only 26% report architectural readiness. Respondents also report widespread AI incidents and limited visibility.
