Data Trust and Resilience Report 2026
Veeam, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
Digital transformation, cloud adoption, and AI have increased the value of enterprise data and expanded the attack surface around it. Data moves across clouds, applications, APIs, models, and automated systems faster than most organizations can track.
Key Takeaways:
Most organizations are confident in recovery, but targets may not match business reality: 90% are confident they can meet defined RTOs, yet only 69% say those RTOs fully align with business continuity goals.
Disruption is already happening and it hits customers and revenue: nearly 3 in 10 experienced a cyber incident causing downtime/data loss/disruption; among those, 42% saw customer disruption and 41% reported financial impact.
Ransomware exposes the real resilience gap: of those hit, 56% faced encryption or exfiltration, yet only 28% fully recovered, while 44% recovered less than 75% of affected data.
AI is amplifying risk faster than governance can keep up: 43% say AI adoption is outpacing security; 42% lack visibility into AI tools/models-reinforcing why resilience must combine visibility, enforced controls, proven recovery testing, and executive alignment.