Findings From The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report represents a groundbreaking shift in cybersecurity analysis by placing real adversary behavior at the forefront of defense strategies. Read the Full Report, or an overview of our findings below.
Traditional detection models have served cybersecurity experts for quite a while, but they are becoming outdated, especially with the changing cybersecurity landscape. Adversaries are now modifying their procedures and testing new techniques at a pace that traditional detection models cannot keep up with. The usual method of vulnerability patching and signature-based detection is failing under the weight of the attack speed of adversarial innovations.
The central idea of this report is to help CISOs reimagine their defensive posture. The reality of threats in 2026 demands that industry security experts move from reacting to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) as they emerge to a method where mapping and validating actual adversary behaviors take precedence.