Verizon 2026 DBIR: 10 Takeaways You Should Know

**Verizon 2026 DBIR executive summary:** The report analyzes 31,000 incidents and 22,000 confirmed breaches and highlights that vulnerability exploitation has overtaken credential abuse as the top initial access vector, third‑party/supply‑chain breaches surged ~60% year‑over‑year, ransomware appears in ~48% of breaches (predominantly impacting SMBs), generative AI is being operationalized by attackers to scale known TTPs, and shadow AI/data exfiltration from unauthorized AI services is an emergent insider risk.