Why Cyber-Enabled Fraud Is Now the Top Cyber Concern for CEO
What small business owners need to learn from 2026’s shift in risk For years, many business leaders treated cybersecurity as a technology problem with a dramatic worst-case ending: ransomware, a major breach, or a full operational shutdown. That fear still matters. But in 2026, the center of gravity is shifting. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 , cyber-enabled fraud and phishing have moved into the top spot among CEO cyber concerns for 2026 , ahead of ransomware. In the same report, 73% of respondents said they or someone in their professional or personal network had been affected by cyber-enabled fraud in the past 12 months . World Economic Forum: Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 That is a major signal. It tells us that leadership is increasingly worried not just about attackers breaking in, but about attackers tricking the business into doing the damage itself . Fraud that looks like normal business. Payments sent to the wrong place...