Endpoints Exposed 76 Days
A new industry report says enterprise PCs are ‘wide open’ to hackers for an average of 76 days per year and endpoint security misses threats roughly 21% of the time—creating long windows attackers can exploit. That exposure figure is especially worrying for K‑12 fleets with limited patching capacity and many unmanaged endpoints. (digit.fyi)
Absolute built the 2026 Resilience Risk Index from anonymized telemetry spanning millions of enterprise endpoints and referenced multi‑year datasets used in prior reports that analyzed more than 15 million PCs. (absolute.com) The report found critical OS patching for Windows 10 and 11 is delayed by an average of 127 days, more than double the 56‑day lag the company reported in 2025. (absolute.com) Absolute reported that 10% of enterprise PCs remain on Windows 10 and noted Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. (absolute.com) Across industry fleets the index says 20% of connected devices store sensitive data, 30% of devices lack encryption, and 25% of endpoints are unaccounted for in inventories. (absolute.com) The company observed browser sessions tied to high‑risk GenAI sites rising from about 150 million to 350 million year‑over‑year, and reported 96% of enterprise PCs now ship with 16–32 GB of RAM to support AI workloads. (absolute.com) Absolute linked the coverage and resilience gaps to roughly $400 billion in annual downtime losses—echoing a 2024 Splunk/Oxford Economics estimate of $400 billion for Global 2000 downtime—and announced plans at RSAC 2026 to add Agentic AI capabilities to its cyber‑resilience platform. (absolute.com)
