What keeps CISOs up at night? Mandiant leaders share top cyber concerns

Mandiant leaders outline current cyber threat trends: a surge in zero-day exploitation (especially against security appliances), increased living-off-the-land tactics that hinder detection, growing focus on cloud environments with effective MFA bypass of legacy methods, and more aggressive extortion that includes physical threats. They note supply chain intrusions are becoming more complex and harder to trace, while widespread zero-days and wartime operations drive defender burnout. Despite AI hype, they assess that today it favors defense more than offense.