You enter the boardroom. Another incident report hits the table. The figures are worse than last year, but the story is familiar: Expensive controls, unseen gaps, and a breach no one saw coming.

Across dashboards, audits, and strategic reviews, the biggest insight from cybersecurity leaders over the past 12 months is startlingly simple: The basics break first. Strong controls you can't see or prove are as much a business risk as any new attack. Recent large, well-publicized breaches have highlighted how operational gaps repeatedly upended even the most well-defended organizations.

We surveyed 400 enterprise CISOs, Directors of Information Security, and Heads of Cyber GRC for the sixth annual Security Leaders Peer Report to understand the full impact of control failures and why resilience is now a core measure of cyber maturity.