Cyber Risk Trends For 2026: Building Resilience, Not Just Defenses
SecurityWeek, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
We can't outpace the adversary by trying to stop every attack, but we can outlast them by engineering systems and culture to take a punch and try to quickly rebound.
If there's one lesson from the past year, it's this: we won't outpace the adversary by trying to stop every attack. We will, however, outlast them by becoming measurably more resilient.
In my recent lecture on emerging threats for 2026, I made the case that cyberattacks will be more complex, more persistent, more intelligent, and far more automated than we've seen before. That means our odds of outright prevention diminish.
The imperative shifts to resilience; the ability to take a punch, adapt in the moment, and rebound quickly with minimal damage.