Insights from the 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report
Microsoft, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Microsoft releases its 2026 Digital Defense Report, highlighting how threats span identities, cloud, supply chains and AI agents.
Microsoft released the 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, its annual view of what its security and threat intelligence teams observe.
The report describes an increasingly interconnected environment in which threat activity spans infrastructure, identities, applications, cloud environments and software supply chains, and in which AI systems and agents interact with data and business tools.
Microsoft stresses correlating separate signals across an environment and notes the accelerating pace of change driven by AI.