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After last year’s Cyber Incident Baseline Surge, we’re back with new data, and the signal is impossible to ignore. Incidents are rising, risks are intensifying, and the organisations embracing threat‑led, evidence‑driven risk insight are the ones pulling ahead.

The Shift in Mindset & Rising Regulation

Just last year alone, 25 businesses put their trust in Acora to expose their cyber risk in an evidential and prioritised way. A sharp signal that business leaders’ attitudes towards business risk are maturing and changing at speed.

Tighter regulations and mandates are forcing boards to demand clarity on “What would happen in the event that someone managed to get inside my business?”

Being able to answer this killer exam question with clarity, confidence, and hard data is now non‑negotiable. The industry has shifted from protect‑first thinking to a resilience‑by‑design mindset, and the organisations leaning into it are accelerating. Those holding back aren’t standing still; they’re slipping behind.

The Science Behind the Data

2025 was dominated by headline‑grabbing breaches, and businesses have taken notice. They’re waking up to the limitations of traditional testing. We keep on hearing the same thing: “We’re still doing pen tests… but we’re getting the same results every year.”

Breaches are rising, risks are growing, yet pen tests keep giving the same static picture, and customers are starting to see the gap.

The conversations we’re having now are more focused, urgent and far more forward-thinking. Businesses understand that a point-in-time snapshot can’t show how an attacker operates once they are in an environment. They’re looking for deeper insight, real attack paths, and hidden connections.

This awakening is accelerating, and customers are seeing the value in threat-driven techniques.

Breadth, Depth & Business-Wide Resilience

Delivering Cyber Incident Baseline Assessments across diverse environments has reinforced one clear truth: understanding cyber risk requires understanding the entire business ecosystem behind it.

End‑user behaviour, operational workflows, infrastructure, cloud maturity, data usage and AI adoption all influence how risk is created, amplified or controlled.

This is why Acora’s approach goes beyond traditional security testing. By combining consulting expertise with technical depth across the full IT stack, we give businesses a complete view of their risk posture. We don’t mark homework. We help rewrite the whole essay.

Resilience isn’t built in isolation. It’s engineered across the whole business.

The Impact: What Leaders are Experiencing

For businesses that have embraced this shift, the results are striking. They’re uncovering risks earlier, breaking potential attack chains and justifying investment decisions with far more confidence with teams aligned around a shared understanding of risk.

In a recent assessment, we identified over 15 million paths to breach in their estate and cut that exposure by more than 95% simply by tuning and enhancing the tools and processes they already had in place.

This is why so many businesses are moving away from annual, point‑in‑time testing and turning to continual threat‑led, data‑driven assessments that reflect real‑world attacker behaviour.

They know they need partners who can identify, prioritise, remediate and validate risk in a meaningful way, and they’re acting fast.

Why it Matters Now: The Opportunity

Our Cyber Incident Baseline Assessment engagement doesn’t just provide a clearer view of risk; it reveals how threats actually move through your environment, highlights what truly matters and provides a clear path to strengthening your posture.

That is why demand is rising sharply.
This is why boards are asking more questions.
And this is why waiting carries more risks than action.

As 2026 unfolds, businesses are seizing the opportunity to rethink resilience entirely. Early adopters are already moving. Many more will follow.

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