84%
had a material digital risk incident this year
Outtake Labs
The 2026 State of Digital Risk
The industry's first deep look at how 1,100+ enterprise security and risk leaders are managing digital risk in the AI era.
What is inside
- Five findings on brand, executive, deepfake, AI agent, and customer-facing risk.
- The Digital Trust Maturity Matrix for grading your program today.
- How the AI Trust Gap changes the risk of using autonomous agents.
In partnership with Cybersecurity Insiders. 1,100+ security and risk leaders.
Get the 2026 Digital Risk Report
The numbers behind the state of digital risk
External risk is overtaking the threat inside your walls
96%
cannot automatically stop a hijacked AI agent
53%
had an executive or employee impersonated
5%
trace an attack to the full campaign behind it
Survey figures: 2026 Digital Risk Report in partnership with Cybersecurity Insiders.
Most digital risk programs are still tier one
The report grades every program across three tiers of digital risk maturity, based on how teams detect incidents, connect them to campaigns, and respond.
Tier 1
Reactive
Teams respond after the incident and rely on customer complaints for detection.
Tier 2
Managed
Teams detect faster but investigate one incident at a time while the operator behind it rebuilds elsewhere.
Tier 3
Adaptive
Teams correlate incidents to full campaigns and defend brands, executives, products, and AI agents together.
The report includes a Digital Trust Maturity Matrix for grading your program.
What the report covers
The five findings
Hold every finding against your program. Where your answer is a pause, look closer.
The AI Trust Gap
At 96% of surveyed organizations, security teams cannot automatically stop a hijacked AI agent before it acts.
Deepfake exposure
Security teams at nearly half of surveyed enterprises suspect or have confirmed executive impersonation by synthetic media.
Detection pipeline
More enterprise security teams hear about impersonation from customers than through any other source.
Response infrastructure
Teams close individual artifacts while operators rebuild on new infrastructure by the next day.
Program ownership
Most respondents report no single owner across security, fraud, legal, and communications.