The Year of Resilience: What Will 2026 Demand from CISOs?

This report argues that AI is amplifying both innovation and cyber risk, collapsing the boundary between IT and business risk and elevating the CISO role into a chief resilience function; it urges organizations to define Minimum Viable Business with AI dependencies, govern AI as a high-risk capability, harden identity for humans/machines/agents, strengthen cross-functional and external collaboration, and assume AI-accelerated disruption with continuous testing and adaptation to maintain trustworthy, available, and controllable AI-augmented operations amid evolving global governance and regulatory pressures.