Ransomware Defense in 2026: What CISOs Need to Know

Semperis argues that testing backups under ideal conditions creates only an illusion of resilience; real cyber resilience is about staying recoverable when the plan fails and the assumptions behind it collapse.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

Making its debut in 2018, the Ryuk ransomware strand has wreaked havoc on hundreds of businesses and is responsible for one-third of all ransomware attacks that took place in 2020.

Cyber resilience is a whole-organization effort. Which roles a resilient org needs in place before the next identity crisis hits—and why HIP 2026 is worth a team trip.

Semperis unpacks the Five Eyes' June 2026 warning on AI-accelerated threats, urging boards to treat cyber resilience as core business risk and validate identity recovery before attackers do.

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.