The security industry has spent the last decade building better walls. Better firewalls, better endpoint detection, better security dashboards with more alerts than any team can realistically triage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The budgets are real: according to Gartner<\/a>, global information security spending reached $213 billion in 2025, with $240 billion projected for 2026. So why does the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report<\/a>, year after year, find that the human element is involved in the majority of confirmed breaches? The 2026 edition puts the figure at 62%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The breach typically traces back not to a zero-day or a nation-state exploit, but to a person clicking something they shouldn’t have, misconfiguring something they set up too fast, or reusing a password they knew they shouldn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n The answer is simpler and more uncomfortable than most security budgets reflect: companies invest heavily in technology designed to detect and block threats that have already bypassed the human layer. By the time the SIEM flags an anomaly, the attacker often has credentials, a foothold, and a head start measured in days or weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n