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The 2026 State of Ransomware report is the seventh edition of our independent, vendor-agnostic survey on ransomware attacks. Answers were gathered from January to March of 2026 and are based on respondents’ experiences from the previous 12 months.
The 2,158 survey participants consisted of IT and cybersecurity directors, senior managers, board members, and executives from 17 countries and a wide range of industries across public and private sectors. They come from organization sizes between 100 and 5,000 employees, and those sizes have remained proportionally consistent over the survey’s seven-year history.
New research in this report:
- Where ransomware attacks start in various IT environments.
- Multi-factor authentication methods enabled during ransomware attacks.
- The role of firewalls in ransomware attacks.
- The link between identity attacks and ransomware.
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