Why Are So Many Security Professionals Keeping Breaches Quiet?
Bitdefender, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Bitdefender research finds more than half of breached IT and security professionals were told to keep the incident confidential.
Bitdefender reports that more than half of IT and cybersecurity professionals who experienced a breach in the past 12 months say they were instructed to keep it confidential, even when the incident was reportable.
The finding points to a persistent gap between disclosure obligations and organizational behavior under pressure.
The post examines why that pressure exists and what it means for regulators, customers and the security professionals caught in the middle. It also considers the downstream effect on industry-wide threat visibility when incidents go unreported.