CYGNVS out-of-band command center for cyber and AI incidents today released CYGNVS Resilience Benchmark Report with Marsh leading global professional services firm. Report draws on more than 9500 survey responses from organizations across world to understand how organizations prepare for practice respond to and report on business-critical incidents. To date this is one of largest collections of organization survey data on incident readiness and resilience announced Oct 13 2026 San Mateo Calif.
Cyber incidents accelerating. More than 6 in 10 organizations say incident volume risen over past 12 months and 91% said board became more involved. Yet 84% review incident response plans once a year or less and 17% do not run tabletop exercises at all rhythm set when critical incidents were rare. Organizations that had lived through critical incident were further along at nearly every stage of response lifecycle and report shows how others can put lessons in place before incident forces issue.
Across incidents and claims supported every year organizations that prepare and practice before incident consistently fare better than those improvising in moment. Working with CYGNVS want to help clients see where they stand against peers and close gaps before they face debilitating business critical incident.
AI incidents are upon us. Report finds nearly nine in ten organizations have already faced AI incident where AI misbehaves to cause some form of harm including rogue agents agentic runaway and jumping guardrails. While 80% of organizations use generative AI only one in three test their AI models against attacks.
AI oversight lagging adoption. Organizations use AI for marketing nearly three times as often as for risk assessment which puts fastest adoption in functions least likely to be tested or governed. When AI incident does occur nearly half of organizations reported they would improvise response. Reporting burden growing as well with more than 50 jurisdictions now having laws or rules on AI incidents. Meanwhile 52% have no defined process for regulatory notifications. Only one in three have dedicated out-of-band environment to manage AI incident that AI being investigated cannot access or interfere with.
Report maps findings across Prepare Practice Respond and Report incident response lifecycle Prepare 92% have documented incident response processes but only 37% have ransomware-specific playbooks and just 29% have playbooks for third-party incidents Practice 17% don't run tabletop exercises and another 66% run them only every one to two years even as critical incidents now arrive monthly or weekly Respond 88% have crisis communications plan but more than four in ten have not secured outside experts that plan relies on Report share of organizations required to formally document security incidents rose from 82% in 2023 to 90% in 2026 yet 69% admitted gaps in records of who did what and when.
Every board and leader wants to know how organization compares to peers. Most of data never sees daylight because incident response happens under high confidentiality. As observe Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October report can help more organizations learn easy way.
Alongside report CYGNVS introducing CYGNVS Resilience Benchmark new capability within CYGNVS platform that lets customers quantitatively measure readiness to critical cyber or AI incident and benchmark themselves against peers by industry size or geography. Benchmarks also provide concrete advice and steps to improve readiness and resilience. Organizations not yet CYGNVS customers can receive personalized benchmark report by completing free assessment.
About CYGNVS Inc.
Over 3,000 customer organizations rely on CYGNVS as their out-of-band command center to successfully manage cyber and AI incidents. Bringing together IT/security teams with business teams and external providers, CYGNVS helps prepare playbooks, practice in tabletop exercises, control the response, protect legal privilege, document chain of custody and report to regulators and customers. CYGNVS AI is trained on an exclusive, growing set of more than 25,000 major incidents not accessible publicly or commercially. Customers are now running 50 new major incidents on the platform every week. Most do not make the news since CYGNVS helps organizations turn business incidents into business as usual.
