2026 Resilience Risk Index
2026 Resilience Risk Index
The most significant impact of a cyber incident is no longer the breach itself, but the operational disruption that follows. Based on data from the 2026 Resilience Risk Index, downtime has become one of the largest and least controlled sources of financial risk.
As enterprise environments grow more complex, critical security controls frequently fail to maintain continuous operational enforcement. Organizations deploy an average of 83 security tools, yet roughly one in five enterprise devices still cannot be reliably protected, updated, or recovered.
This report reveals why security leaders must shift their focus from deploying the most tools to ensuring their infrastructure remains reachable, enforceable, and recoverable when failure inevitably occurs.
Key highlights:
- Companies lose an average of $49 million in revenue annually due to downtime, costing the Global 2000 more than $400 billion.
- Approximately 20% of enterprise devices operate outside a fully protected and enforceable state.
- Protected-state integrity dropped from 64% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, leaving almost half of devices outside a fully protected state.
- Windows 10 patch age more than doubled year over year, leaving critical infrastructure exposed to new vulnerabilities.
- AI accelerates failure where system fragility already exists, increasing the speed of operational disruption.
Historically, security solutions were judged by their ability to prevent breaches. In the Downtime Era, the most consequential question is whether your organization can maintain operational resilience when failure occurs.
Download the 2026 Resilience Risk Index to learn how to continuously validate, enforce, and recover your security infrastructure at scale.
2026 Resilience Risk Index
Discover why enterprise performance depends on cyber resilience and how to maintain operational resilience during disruption.
The most significant impact of a cyber incident is no longer the breach itself, but the operational disruption that follows. Based on data from the 2026 Resilience Risk Index, downtime has become one of the largest and least controlled sources of financial risk.
As enterprise environments grow more complex, critical security controls frequently fail to maintain continuous operational enforcement. Organizations deploy an average of 83 security tools, yet roughly one in five enterprise devices still cannot be reliably protected, updated, or recovered.
This report reveals why security leaders must shift their focus from deploying the most tools to ensuring their infrastructure remains reachable, enforceable, and recoverable when failure inevitably occurs.
Key highlights:
- Companies lose an average of $49 million in revenue annually due to downtime, costing the Global 2000 more than $400 billion.
- Approximately 20% of enterprise devices operate outside a fully protected and enforceable state.
- Protected-state integrity dropped from 64% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, leaving almost half of devices outside a fully protected state.
- Windows 10 patch age more than doubled year over year, leaving critical infrastructure exposed to new vulnerabilities.
- AI accelerates failure where system fragility already exists, increasing the speed of operational disruption.
Historically, security solutions were judged by their ability to prevent breaches. In the Downtime Era, the most consequential question is whether your organization can maintain operational resilience when failure occurs.
Download the 2026 Resilience Risk Index to learn how to continuously validate, enforce, and recover your security infrastructure at scale.
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