Absolute Security：2026年韧性风险指数：宕机之困：企业绩效何以系于网络韧性研究报告（英文版）（31页）.pdf

1、ResilienceRISK INDEX2026Why Enterprise Performance Now Depends onCyber ResilienceTHE DOWNTIME RECKONING:2RESILIENCE RISK INDEX 2026/ABSOLUTE SECURITYtable of contentsLetter from the CEO|Christy Wyatt,President&CEO,Absolute Security .3Executive Summary|The Downtime Reckoning .4Part I.Complexity is Cr

2、eating Fragility .6Part II.The AI Acceleration .16Part III.Where Fragility Becomes Financially Material .22Part IV.Return on Resilience .25Sources .303RESILIENCE RISK INDEX 2026/ABSOLUTE SECURITYFor more than a decade,cybersecurity strategy has focused on prevention.Enterprises invested heavily in d

3、etecting threats faster,blocking attacks earlier,and expanding security coverage across increasingly complex environments.That investment has been made in protectionbut not in resilience.This years Resilience Risk Index shows that despite rising security spend,the operational durability of enterpris

4、e endpoints has largely stagnated.Across tens of millions of devices,the share of endpoints operating in a fully protected and enforceable state improved by just one percentage point year over year.In practical terms,nearly 20%of enterprise devices still cannot be reliably protected,updated or recov

5、ered during disruption.At the same time,the consequences of that fragility have intensified.We are now firmly in what we call the Downtime Eraan environment where the most significant impact of cyber incidents is no longer the breach itself,but the operational disruption that follows.Across industri

6、es,downtime has become one of the largest and least controlled sources of financial risk.What once appeared as localized technical failures now routinely escalate into enterprise wide outages with material business impact.Several forces are driving this shift,and all accelerated over the past year.E