Your Attack Surface Is Bigger Than You Think: Insights from the Arctic Wolf 2026 State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface Report

**Arctic Wolf's State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface** report summarizes aggregated telemetry from Aurora Exposure Management across 800,000+ assets, finding pervasive visibility and hygiene gaps—33% of assets lack at least one critical control, 19% are end-of-life, and attackers increasingly exploit remote access and trusted-relationship misconfigurations. The report highlights that many exploited CVEs had available patches, emphasizes the need for correlated context across security and IT tooling to prioritize exposures effectively, and promotes continuous discovery, remediation verification, and modular integration to reduce exposure.