Forbes December 12, 2025
The cybersecurity landscape is entering its most transformative period in decades. Artificial intelligence is accelerating attacks at machine speed, long-standing compliance frameworks are gaining real enforcement power and the boundary between national security and corporate cybersecurity is disappearing. For companies large or small, 2026 will not be defined by new categories of threats. It will be defined by the scale, intelligence and automation behind the threats already in motion.
This is the year cybersecurity becomes a core element of business continuity and national readiness. The organizations that act now will gain an advantage. Those that wait will discover that the gap between attackers and defenders has widened beyond what traditional programs can close.
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