These are the findings from Arctic Wolf’s 2026 Threat Report and Splunk’s The CISO Report: From Risk to Resilience in the AI Era study.
The job of defending corporate networks is getting harder and more personal.
Cyber attackers are abandoning the noisy tactics that once dominated breach headlines and shifting toward quieter, faster forms of extortion. At the same time, the chief information security officers (CISOs) responsible for stopping them are increasingly worried they could be held personally liable when things go wrong.
