The Uncomfortable Truth About "More Visibility"
Feb 16, 2026
Security teams have never had more telemetry. They have also never been more behind. In 2025, organizations faced an average of 1,968 cyber attacks per week , an 18% YoY increase, and nearly a 70% increase since 2023 . That's not just "more noise." It's a signal that attacker throughput is scaling faster than human response models can. At the same time, the attacker playbook shifted in ways that punish slow cycles. Social engineering moved beyond email into multi-channel, cross-platform operations, including new interaction-led techniques like ClickFix, which manipulates users into executing the attack themselves. ClickFix activity increased by roughly 500% and appeared in nearly half of documented malware campaigns. And while humans remain a primary target, attackers are finding even easier traction in unpatched, unmanaged, and inherited exposures. These gaps give adversaries durable footholds long before exposure remediation is implemented. Couple that with automation, and expo...