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As the cybersecurity industry looks ahead to 2026, the challenge is not a lack of predictions, but an overabundance of them—many detached from operational reality or focused on singular technologies in isolation. This blog takes a more grounded view, examining how advances in artificial intelligence, defensive AI automation, and cryptographic resilience intersect with geopolitical instability and long-standing threat behaviors. Rather than treating 2026 as a sharp inflection

In the cybersecurity industry, 2025 was a notable year. At one end of the scale, startups emerged from stealth following multi-million-dollar equity injections by well-funded, private investment firms. At the other end, security product and services vendors continued to consolidate, following an uptick in acquisition activity, fueled by eye-watering levels of cash injections. Many purchasers were known serial acquirers – Google buying Wiz, Palo Alto Network’s purchasing of Cy

Every year from November onwards, we start to receive press releases, “thought leadership” reports, LinkedIn posts and DMs about predictions around how the technology and cybersecurity markets will develop during the following year. This year the volume has increased, but the noticeable uniformity of the content points to the wider use of GenAI tools, producing a mass of generic predictions. So many people commenting on their experiences made us ask: should we just avoid maki