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.
Doing less can deliver more. Scope reduction reduces risk, simplifies compliance, and makes regulated opportunities attainable for any organization willing to focus on what really matters.
The problem is that most security models weren’t designed with agent autonomy in mind.
In a potential hot conflict over Taiwan sovereignty, cyber operations would be at the forefront, and aimed at slowing the U.S. military response, targeting military logistics systems, cloud-based sustainment platforms, naval communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.
Treating CSF Tiers as maturity scores creates a dangerous illusion… boards believe Tier 4 means secure, when in reality it does not.
Most, eventually all, CISOs will be forced to endure the loss of a cherished vendor and promising roadmap due to an acquisition.
It’s their necessity for such accessibility that makes secure configuration especially challenging—and when a zero-day vulnerability emerges, the damage can be swift.
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.
