Mandiant's 2026 Threats Report

The M-Trends 2026 Report offers evidence-based findings on new and evolving threats targeting business operations.

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Defending the enterprise today involves navigating a landscape where evolving threats directly impact long-term business viability.

Grounded in over 500k hours of Mandiant incident response investigations from 2025, the M-Trends 2026 Executive Edition analyzes the business risks most likely to impact your organization, including:

  • The 22-second ransomware handoff: Why automated response has become a more valuable tool.
  • The retention gap: Why standard 90-day log retention policies have the potential to create blind spots against attackers who might dwell for over a year.
  • The AI-foundational gap: Address the growing disparity as adversaries use AI to scale attacks while still exploiting basic infrastructure configuration gaps

The full report is available here.

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