Humans still cause 72% of insider incidents in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs
Trellix's survey of 600 CISOs puts careless or deliberate human action behind 72% of insider incidents on average and AI systems behind 28%. Programs that add agent controls still have to keep the human ones, since people cause most incidents.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption78
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
Trellix ships a Wise edition that runs entirely inside the customer's own environment
Trellix launched Trellix Wise for Private Cloud, which runs its security operations AI engine entirely inside customer environments with no per-token billing. The release targets the reasons large organizations have held back from giving SOC work to AI agents.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives75
- Confidence55
Microsoft says Star Blizzard has sent fake event invitations to more than 100 organizations since January, many from hacked WordPress and cPanel sites. The group, long known for stealing email passwords, now uses the messages to install a Windows backdoor.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 28%
- Operator
- Operator 62%
- Investor
- Investor 10%
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives35
- Confidence70
buildOne report1 publisher Star Blizzard now delivers the CosmicPulse backdoor through fake event invitations
Microsoft says Russia's FSB-linked Star Blizzard sent fake event invitations to more than 100 organizations since January 2026. The lures pose as Chatham House and Atlantic Council events and carry a new Python backdoor, CosmicPulse, aimed at people working on Ukraine.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence62
The UAE says attack attempts quadrupled to 800,000 a day. The number that matters is hours.
Exploit windows in the Gulf have fallen from days to hours, Check Point says. That breaks patch schedules and phishing training written for a slower adversary, whatever the AI labelling.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives72
- Confidence44