Security Predictions for 2026: When AI Scales the Offense, Defense Must Evolve by Fabien Guillot

The report forecasts that 2026 will bring accelerated AI-enabled offensive activity, increased adoption of AI agents in SOCs with a critical need for governance and least-privilege controls, growing challenges from shadow AI and agentic IAM, and default hybrid multi-vector attacks spanning cloud, identity abuse, malware, and fraud; it concludes that unified visibility, governance, and resilient, observable architectures are essential as attackers exploit speed, autonomy, and scale.