2026 Mid-Market Cyber Threat Trends Report
Three shifts in this year’s breach data, and what they mean for lean IT and security teams.
Download the report (PDF)The question was never whether you’re a big enough prize.
Most attacks on small and mid-sized companies aren’t targeted at all. Automated scanning finds an exposed system, and a criminal group runs the same playbook it ran on the last thousand victims. It’s whether your company is an easy enough door.
Three quiet failures of things most companies believe they’ve handled.
None of these are exotic attack techniques. They’re backups, patching, and funds-transfer controls, and each one is worth checking against your own environment.
Backup infrastructure is a primary target, not a fallback
Recovery denial: attackers disable backups, identity, and virtualization before any encryption starts, so paying is the only way back.
Patch cycles are losing ground to faster exploitation
Exploited vulnerabilities passed stolen credentials as the top way in, while full remediation of known-exploited vulnerabilities fell from 38% to 26%.
Funds transfer fraud no longer needs a human mistake
A growing share of losses runs straight to the bank, with no phishing email and no employee in the path.
Written for whoever runs IT or security at a company with a few hundred to a couple thousand employees, without a dedicated SOC and without an unlimited budget. Each trend ends with what it means for your environment, plus a plain-language glossary for readers who own the risk without owning the tooling.
If any of these three raises a question about your environment, that’s worth a conversation, not a guess.
Read the report, then talk it through with us, or start with ten questions on how your ransomware defenses would actually hold.
Sources: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report; Mandiant M-Trends 2026; Coalition 2026 Cyber Claims Report. Figures are reproduced from those published reports; Satine Technologies is not affiliated with, and does not speak for, their publishers.