Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026

Resilience CEOs of highly resilient organizations cite external ecosystem risks as the top challenge to cyber resilience, while less resilient peers point to funding and skills shortages As organizational resilience improves, CEOs increasingly shift their attention from internal resource constraints, such as funding or skills shortages, to broader ecosystem risks. In the survey, 78% of CEOs of highly resilient organizations identify supply chain and third- party dependencies as the most significant challenge to further strengthening resilience. On the other hand, cybersecurity skills shortage (56%) and lack of funds (63%) were the top challenges identified by CEOs of insufficiently resilient organizations to improve their cyber resilience. CEOs’ greatest challenge to becoming cyber resilient, by organizational resilience level FIGURE 4 What is your organization's greatest challenge to becoming cyber resilient? 20% 40% 60% 80%Third-party and supply chain vulnerabilities 78% 31% Rapidly evolving threat landscape and emerging technologies56% 13% Regulatory compliance and governance complexities 41% 25% Lack of visibility across IT, OT and IoT environments 19% 56% Cybersecurity skills and expertise shortage 19% 56% 15% 19%Insufficient incident response and recovery planning 15% 25%Legacy systems 15% 63%Lack of funds CEO of highly resilient organization CEO of insufficiently resilient organization0% Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 14