Speed Wins When Identity Fails: 2026 Annual Threat Report

The 2026 Annual Cyber‑Threat Report synthesizes investigations from 2025 to show attackers increasingly leverage high‑privilege credentials, AI-generated malware, and social engineering to achieve breakout in as little as 4 minutes and exfiltration in 6 minutes; it highlights a CVSS 10.0 SAP NetWeaver zero‑day and nation‑state-like persistence, and recommends automated, identity‑focused defenses (FIDO2/WebAuthn, JIT access, out‑of‑band verification) plus behavior‑based detection and cross‑environment correlation.