The 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape Report comes at a time when security and risk analysts, operators, and agencies are both under immense pressure from being critically understaffed and an overwhelming volume of cyber events occurring every day. These events contribute to a rapidly expanding threat landscape that has been put into overdrive due to malicious use of AI that lowers the barrier to entry for unskilled actors and greatly increases the capabilities of advanced adversaries. Keeping up with the resulting chaos of today’s cyber risk landscape is an ever-growing challenge.