83% Of Cloud Breaches Start With Identity, AI Agents Are About To Make It Worse
Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 12th, 2026
Google's H1 2026 Cloud Threat Horizons Report, produced by the combined intelligence of Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant Incident Response, and the Office of the CISO, documents something security leaders have been bracing for: The threat landscape isn't just evolving, it's accelerating past our ability to respond with the tools and organizational instincts we've built over the last two decades.
Three findings from this report, read together, tell a story that demands a fundamental rethinking of how enterprises govern identity, manage AI, and architect their defenses.
The Identity Problem We Never Solved - Now Multiplied
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has told us for years that identity is the dominant attack surface. Stolen credentials, phishing, social engineering - these have topped the initial access charts with the kind of consistency that makes the finding almost easy to dismiss. We've known. We've talked about it. And we've kept overprovisioning anyway.