7 CIS Experts' 2026 Cybersecurity Predictions

CIS experts outline 2026 cybersecurity predictions, emphasizing AI’s dominance and operationalization across SOC workflows; rising cross-platform, semi-autonomous, and Crimeware-as-a-Service threats; increased abuse of trusted cloud and SaaS infrastructure and supply-chain single points of failure; surging deepfake and cognitive attacks in an election year; heightened risks to OT and critical infrastructure likely prompting federal standards; the convergence of privacy and security governance; zero trust shifting toward compliance mandates; funding headwinds for SLTTs; and cloud resilience becoming a national policy issue, urging proactive, collaborative defenses and governance with support from MS-ISAC and services like ThreatWA.