Overview

• A VikingCloud report finds 71% of security leaders saw attacks grow more common in the past year and 61% reported greater impact, with nearly 80% worried about nation-state targeting and spillover through software supply chains.
• Nearly half of surveyed leaders admitted they did not share material breaches with executives or boards, and 22% of those concealed five or more incidents.
• ISACA’s global survey reports 65% of organizations have unfilled cybersecurity roles, 55% say teams are understaffed, two-thirds see rising job stress, and only 41% are confident in incident‑response capabilities.
• Attackers are leveraging generative and agentic AI for scalable phishing, social engineering, and ransomware, while most organizations now use AI to automate detection, identity management, and response tasks.
• One-third of organizations increased cybersecurity budgets compared to last year, and reliance on managed security services has doubled, with about two-thirds now using outside providers.