Case Study
Global Cyber Resilience Report
The current level of cyber resilience is examined in this extensive research report by Cohesity. It describes the actual operational and financial effects of significant cyberattacks and highlights the growing divide between "risk-ready" and "risk-exposed" organizations. The study offers executive-level perspectives on how automation and artificial intelligence are being applied to speed recovery and bridge the resilience gap.
- Topic
- Security
- Published
- 11 Feb 2026
Prevention and detection have become inadequate measures. Even highly sophisticated organizations face paralyzing disruptions that cascade from technology operations into the executive suite.
The findings of our latest research, which surveyed 400+ IT and security leaders, paint a sobering picture of a split world: those that can, and those that cannot recover.
Key Highlights:
The Resilience Divide: There appears to be an increasing divide between those who can quickly bounce back ("risk ready") and those who experience extended periods of downtime ("risk exposed").
Inadequacy of Prevention: Today, merely the ability to defend or prevent attacks will not suffice; the key factor will now be the ability to survive the attack.
Operational to Boardroom Effect: The effect of cyber disruptions no longer remains a technological affair and reverberates throughout the business, affecting reputation, financial resilience, and boardroom decision-making.
Material Attack Reality: The paper also explains how material attacks, which are those of consequence significant enough to cause substantial business disruption instead of simple queries, should be protected.
Self-Assessment versus Reality: Most organizations self-assess themselves highly in resilience but fail when actual material incidents take place, marking a "confidence gap."
Role of AI and Automation: Leading organizations are fast moving toward AI-driven insights and automated recovery workflows that reduce the "time to resilience."
Cyber Insurance Trends: Resilience capabilities are increasingly tied to the ability to qualify for and maintain favourable cyber insurance terms.
Success through collaboration: The IT Operations and SecOps teams must converge to recover collaboratively from a single source of truth.
Financial Consequences: Besides immediate data loss, this report quantifies what that long-term, downstream financial damage from inadequate recovery speed looks like.