Cyber experts pinpoint what to look out for in 2026

Cybersecurity experts forecast that 2026 will feature stealthy, identity-driven intrusions that blend into normal activity; AI-related cascading failures and supply-chain compromises (poisoned data, manipulated model weights, compromised plugins); growing hypervisor exposure; overwhelming growth of non-human identities; and urgent post-quantum migration needs. They also anticipate widening capacity gaps across governments and critical infrastructure, geopolitical pressures (including China and Russia), election influence risks, and the necessity to embed end-to-end security, continuous monitoring, and AI governance into business and national security operations to achieve resilience.