Challenges and projects for the CISO in 2026

In 2026, organizations face a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape where attacks will be faster and cheaper due to AI and automation, while new threats like deepfakes (synthetic media that looks like real people), voice cloning, and agentic AI (AI systems that can plan and execute tasks autonomously) will erode trust in authentication and cloud access. Key challenges include the concentration of internet infrastructure among a few large providers (creating a single point of failure), supply chain attacks, and the shift toward treating identity as the primary security boundary rather than device security.