Cyber defence is entering its 2026 year with the balance of advantage increasingly being determined by speed rather than sophistication. With the window between intrusion and impact now measured in minutes rather than days instead of days, the advantage is increasingly being gained by speed.
As breakout times fall below an hour and identity-based compromise replaces malware as the dominant method of entry into enterprise environments, threat actors are now operating faster, quieter, and with greater precision than ever before.
By making use of artificial intelligence, phishing, fraud, and reconnaissance can be executed at unprecedented scales, with minimal technical knowledge, which is a decisive accelerator for the phishing, fraud, and reconnaissance industries. As a result of the commoditization, automation, and availability of capabilities once requiring specialized skills, they have lowered the barrier to entry for attackers dramatically.
There is an increased threat of “adaptive, fast-evolving threats” that organizations must deal with, and one of the main factors that has contributed to this is the rapid and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence across both offensive and defensive cyber operations. Moody’s Ratings describes this as leading to a “new era of adaptive, fast-evolving threats”.
A key reality for chief information security officers, boards of directors, and enterp
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