How Global Power Struggles Are Rewriting Cyber Defense

This piece surveys the World Economic Forum’s 2026 cybersecurity outlook—highlighting AI’s acceleration of the cyber arms race, geopolitics as the dominant driver of risk strategy, and the prevalence of cyber-enabled fraud—while contextualizing global developments such as Europe’s push for digital sovereignty, Ukraine’s restrictions on Starlink terminals during wartime, NATO’s largest cyber defense exercise, and rising threats to space systems; it also briefly references Russia-linked activities and China’s “Typhoon” hackers, offering strategic insights rather than technical indicators or incident details.