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This edition focuses on industry events from the month of August 2026. As a news and commentary edition, this month’s report prioritizes emerging threats and industry research over statistical sections.

The pace and volume of threats targeting organizations of all sizes everywhere is increasing at a rate many security teams are struggling to keep up with. IT teams are overwhelmed by the alerts and notifications coming in left, right and center. They’re doing their best with the tools they have but often resorting to manual monitoring, causing delays. 

Hornetsecurity by Proofpoint has launched its Ransomware Report 2027, revealing that organisations are better prepared for ransomware attacks than ever before, but confidence in existing protection measures remains limited.

To better understand how CISOs and IT leaders are truly experiencing and perceiving artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity, we decided to turn the tables. Rather than “pushing our AI solutions” like many vendors do, we asked CISOs directly about their honest thoughts, real-world challenges, and actual successes with AI.