2026 Security Predictions: Are You Prepared?

Digital IT News surveyed cybersecurity experts for their 2026 security predictions. I was quoted on the expanding scope of nation-state operations and what that shift means for commercial enterprises.

The core argument: the boundary between government targets and private-sector targets has effectively dissolved. Advanced persistent threat actors are increasingly treating commercial organizations as legitimate targets for economic disruption, IP theft, and espionage that serves geopolitical objectives. This is not a hypothetical future state. It is the current operating environment, and the gap between the defenses most enterprises maintain and the capabilities they now face is widening.

The implication is uncomfortable but necessary to confront. Enterprises need to stop benchmarking their security posture against commodity threats and start thinking about resilience against state-sponsored adversaries. That means treating geopolitical risk as a core input to the cyber threat model, not an abstraction that only matters to defense contractors and critical infrastructure operators.

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