Research Reports
The latest cybersecurity research from the top security and IT companies, in one place. Each report opens on the publisher's own site.
FieldCISO
Black October Report 2026
October 2026, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, turned into “Black October”: SBI’s customer data leak, the record $6.3B Binance theft, weak eMudhra certificate keys and Denmark’s 8.8M-person register exposure. Most began with trusted laptops, partners, applications and keys, not users clicking bad links, so third-party access, machine identities and AI-speed attackers should be CISOs’ top priorities.
Microsoft
Research report · 2026
Microsoft
Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2026
Microsoft's annual view across its daily security signals: AI has handed attackers a near-term edge, and the time from vulnerability discovery to weaponisation keeps shrinking.
Comcast Business
Research report · 2026
Comcast Business
2026 Cybersecurity Threat Report
Analysis of 79.3 billion security events, with phishing and drive-by compromise as the highest-volume techniques and AI raising pressure across the board.
Zscaler
Research report · 2026
Zscaler
ThreatLabz 2026 Ransomware Report
Ransomware-linked data theft rose sharply year over year, with attackers increasingly targeting employees in privileged roles.
CrowdStrike
Research report · 2026
CrowdStrike
2026 Threat Hunting Report
Released at Black Hat 2026: cloud-focused eCrime surged, and AI-generated detection leads now outnumber human-generated ones.
IBM
Research report · 2026
IBM
Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026
The 21st edition with Ponemon Institute puts the global average breach cost at a record high, and finds organisations using security AI extensively save significantly.
Sophos
Research report · 2026
Sophos
The State of Ransomware 2026
A survey of 2,158 IT and security leaders hit by ransomware: fewer victims are paying, identity compromise is the main way in, and recovery costs keep rising.
Zscaler
Research report · 2026
Zscaler
ThreatLabz 2026 Phishing and Initial Access Report
Phishing volume fell for a second year, but campaigns are shifting toward speed, credibility and credential theft.
Verizon
2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)
The 19th DBIR finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the leading initial access vector in breaches.
Fortinet
Research report · 2026
Fortinet
2026 Global Threat Landscape Report
FortiGuard Labs telemetry shows confirmed ransomware victims up 389% year over year, driven by AI-enabled and increasingly industrialised cybercrime.
Google Cloud (Mandiant)
Research report · 2026
Google Cloud (Mandiant)
M-Trends 2026
Frontline findings from Mandiant investigations: voice phishing led cloud compromises, and the mean time to exploit has gone negative, before patches ship.
Cisco Talos
Talos 2025 Year in Review
Talos frames 2025 as a year of pace and scale: lightning-fast exploitation, identity abuse and end-of-life systems as the weaknesses attackers leaned on.
CrowdStrike
Research report · 2026
CrowdStrike
2026 Global Threat Report
AI is accelerating adversaries and reshaping the attack surface, with AI-enabled attacks up sharply and breakout times measured in minutes.
Palo Alto Networks
Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report 2026
Drawn from 750+ incident response engagements: identity weaknesses played a role in almost 90% of investigations, and attacks are moving faster than ever.
Check Point
Research report · 2026
Check Point
Cyber Security Report 2026
Check Point's 14th annual report: global attacks hit record levels in 2025 as AI pushes attackers toward automation and multi-channel social engineering.
Zscaler
Research report · 2026
Zscaler
ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report
Nearly a trillion AI/ML transactions analysed: enterprise AI activity up 91% year over year, opening a growing oversight gap.
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