Relax about the drift. Every one of these has a known answer, and we keep it running.
600,000attacks a day countered nationally in 2026
The Cyber Security Council reported about 200,000 attacks a day in 2025 and around 600,000 a day during 2026, with more than 200 threat bulletins issued daily. The country holds. The question is whether your business would.
The control: The Council’s daily bulletins become checks against your actual assets inside the platform, so national intelligence turns into a to-do list for your engineer.
Source: UAE Cyber Security Council statements, 2025 and 2026, as reported by Khaleej Times and Emirates 24|7
42%of regional breaches begin with an unpatched flaw
Across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, vulnerability exploitation is the leading way in. Every day brings a new one, and only about a quarter of known-exploited flaws get fully fixed.
The control: Patching on a cadence tied to exploited-vulnerability catalogues, with the read-only agent showing which of your systems are exposed today. Relax about the drift; we see it before the attacker does.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, EMEA
62%of breaches involve the human element
Phishing, stolen credentials and simple mistakes, with mobile lures now hooking 40% more often than email. In a multilingual workforce the lure comes in whichever language works.
The control: Multi-factor authentication everywhere, email protection, and training in English and Arabic. MFA alone defeats the vast majority of account-takeover attempts.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
69%of ransomware victims refused to pay last year. They had backups.
Ransomware is present in nearly half of breaches worldwide. The difference between a crisis and a bad day is whether the backups were isolated from the network and tested.
The control: Air-gapped, versioned backups with a restore drill on the calendar. Ransomware becomes a restore, not a negotiation.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
48%of breaches involve a third party or a leaked credential chain
Client financial data, patient records and contracts leave through email and through the vendors you trust. Third-party involvement in breaches rose 60% in a year.
The control: Email data-loss prevention, encryption for sensitive attachments, vendor access reviews and the critical security controls that apply to your data type, kept effective continuously.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
45%of employees now use AI at work; 67% through personal accounts
Source code and client data are the most common things pasted into consumer AI tools. Under the PDPL and health-data law, that is a transfer you did not document.
The control: An AI usage policy enforced as a control, approved tools with data-loss prevention, and ISO 42001 alignment when buyers ask. Govern it from the same platform.
Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
