A Breach Convinced 64% To Spend More. An AI Announcement Convinced 85%.

Both numbers sit inside IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The gap between them may be the most useful finding in the study. As follow-on research to the IBM data breach report, Ponemon Institute studied 602 breached organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. Nearly two-thirds said they planned to spend more on … Read more

Shadow AI Executives: The Boss Is the Biggest Policy Breaker, TrustedTech Survey Finds

Ask a CISO what worries them most about shadow AI. The answer usually points to junior staff. New survey data points the finger up the org chart instead. TrustedTech, a Microsoft cloud solutions provider, commissioned Censuswide to survey 2,001 UK and US employees in March 2026. The report, “Shadow AI in the Workplace,” found that … Read more

Agentic AI: 98% Have Already Had An Incident. Few Can Prove What Happened

A new report opens with a number built to alarm. Almost every large organization running AI agents has already had one cause disruption. The figure is 98%. The research comes from Economist Enterprise, supported by Rubrik. It surveyed 804 senior technical executives across nine countries. Every respondent runs AI agents in live systems. The headline … Read more

When an AI Agent Causes the Loss: Shadow AI and the Underwriting Questions It Raises

An AI agent can now write code, call tools, move files, and run commands. In most setups, it does all of that with the permissions of the person who launched it. So when an agent causes damage, the first underwriting question is deceptively hard. Who acted? Remy Guercio, Product Lead for Aperture at Tailscale, does … Read more

As the World Cup Kicks Off, 84% of Sports Organizations Report a Cyber Hit

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has kicked off across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The NBA and Stanley Cup Finals are live at the same time. Global sport is at peak visibility. New research says attackers have noticed. Darktrace published its report, Cybersecurity in Global Sport, this week. The Cambridge-founded firm sells behavioral AI … Read more

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