Breach Transparency Remains Cybersecurity's Toughest Governance Problem

Summary: The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment surveyed 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals across France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States, all in organizations with 500 or more employees. Of respondents who experienced a security incident or breach in the past 12 months, 55.2% said they were instructed to keep it confidential even though they believed it should have been reported to authorities, with the U.S. highest at 68.6%, followed by Germany and the U.K. at 57.2%.
Bottom line: More than half of the people who lived through a breach were told to stay quiet about it, and in the U.S. that figure reaches 68.6% - a number that describes the culture your incident response team is actually operating inside, not the reporting policy on paper.

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