47% of CISOs Cite Agentic AI as Top Attack Vector as 2026 Threat Landscape Shifts to Machine Speed
The security industry has spent years warning about AI-powered threats in abstract terms. Flashpoint’s 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report drops the abstraction: 47% of cybersecurity professionals now identify agentic AI as their top attack surface — and only 29% have deployed any countermeasures. That gap — 47% concerned, 29% prepared — is the most important number in the report. What the Report Found Flashpoint is a threat intelligence firm with significant data access across the criminal and state-sponsored threat ecosystem. Their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report is one of the more credible annual security surveys, drawing on both proprietary threat data and professional surveys. ...