2026 M-Trends Report and beyond: Key findings in the Public Sector
In 2026, the public sector is no longer defending a traditional perimeter. Instead, they are defending a complex web of interconnected trust relationships against adversaries that now operate at machine speed. We recently published the 2026 Public Sector Threat Landscape: M-Trends and Beyond report, which distills more than 500,000 hours of frontline incident investigations conducted by Mandiant in 2025, specifically tailored to the mission-critical needs of public sector leaders.
Key findings from the report and what they mean for the public sector
The most alarming trend in this year’s M-Trends data is the 22-second hand-off:the median time between an initial access broker establishing a foothold and the hand-off to a ransomware operator. This extreme compression of the attack cycle renders traditional, human-speed triage obsolete. When an infection on a municipal workstation can move to an encrypted network before a human analyst can even open a ticket, the strategic mandate...
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