Top 10 ways to get breached in 2026

This article forecasts the most likely breach vectors in 2026—from misconfigurations and social engineering to machine-identity exposure, software supply chain compromises, AI/LLM abuse, adversary-in-the-middle, sprawl, DDoS, DNS manipulation, and zero-days—and pairs each with pragmatic defenses including policy-as-code guardrails, phishing-resistant MFA, tighter OAuth and session controls, machine identity and secret hygiene, SBOMs and signed artifacts, sandboxed and least-privilege AI tools, resilient architectures with failover and rate limiting, continuous monitoring, and rapid prioritization of actively exploited vulnerabilities.