Security Experts Share Their 2026 Cybersecurity Predictions
Here are the predictions we believe will have significant impacts on security professionals in the year ahead: the bad and the good.
Here are the predictions we believe will have significant impacts on security professionals in the year ahead: the bad and the good.
The agentic AI governance gap is a fundamental enterprise weakness. Sixty-three percent of organizations lack AI governance policies, according to IBM's research. This creates a complete lack of any meaningful organizational control over these deployments.
AI-driven attacks are real, and they’re occurring. But to paraphrase cyberpunk writing pioneer William Gibson, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
2026 will bring CISOs and security professionals potential AI breaches, tight infrastructure regulation, a new European Union vulnerability database, quantum security growth, and merger and acquisition shifts.
The breach has triggered a reckoning with security blind spots that extend far beyond one company's network.
A new survey reveals many private equity firms still shortchange cyber due diligence—leaving portfolios exposed to costly breaches and highlighting a persistent gap between risk awareness and real-world protection.
Here's what will surprise you: despite massive digital expansion, breach risk isn't uniformly climbing for all organizations. In fact, there are dramatic variations that challenge everything we thought we knew about cyber risk.
As cyber threats intensify, U.S. federal cybersecurity agencies face major cutbacks, leaving organizations to navigate heightened compliance demands with fewer federal resources.