
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.






















