The company Armis, specialized in cybersecurity and cyber exposure management, presents its forecasts for 2026, a year that will mark a structural change in the global panorama of digital threats. According to the company’s experts, artificial intelligence has become the great accelerator of risk, transforming the nature of attacks and forcing organizations to evolve from reactive models towards predictive, autonomous and integrated cybersecurity strategies.
Over the past year, cyber threats have reached an unprecedented level of sophistication, elevating cybersecurity to a strategic priority for companies and institutions. AI has ceased to be exclusively a defensive cybersecurity tool and has also become a weapon in the hands of state actors and organized criminal groups, capable of discovering vulnerabilities, launching automated exploitation chains and impersonating human behavior at a scale and speed never seen before. In this context, Armis warns that traditional cybersecurity controls are no longer sufficient to protect increasingly connected environments that span IT, OT, IoT, medical devices, cloud and code.
Armis forecasts for 2026 in cybersecurity
- Large-scale AI-powered attacks: from the manipulation of financial systems through autonomous bots and deepfakes, to self-evolving phishing and extortion campaigns that will challenge classic cybersecurity models.-
- Massive fraud through synthetic identities and deepfakes: The creation of false identities indistinguishable from real ones will put verification systems and cybersecurity controls in check in financial, health and government sectors.
- Escalation of attacks on critical infrastructure and OT/IoT environments: Energy, health, transportation and essential services will become priority objectives, demanding new cybersecurity approaches with physical and social impact.
- Systemic Digital Supply Chain Engagement: The insertion of malicious code in open source software, firmware and dependencies will become consolidated as a structural risk that traditional cybersecurity does not always manage to detect in time.
- Use of disinformation as a strategic weapon: Coordinated information manipulation campaigns powered by AI will force us to expand the scope of cybersecurity beyond the purely technical sphere.
Cybersecurity as a competitive advantage
Given this scenario, Armis emphasizes that cybersecurity will evolve in 2026 from a purely defensive function to a strategic business enabler. Continuous exposure management, real-time visibility of all assets and automation of detection and response will become fundamental pillars of modern cybersecurity, aimed at ensuring operational continuity and resilience.
Faced with AI threats, organizations must adopt predictive, autonomous and integrated strategies
“Organizations no longer consider cybersecurity as a cost of doing business; they see it as a differentiating element, a basis of trust and a competitive advantage. In 2026, cybersecurity will not only protect companies, but will also guide, accelerate and enable innovation,” explained Alex Rocha, Country Manager Iberia at Armis. “At Armis we believe that the future of cybersecurity goes beyond protection. It is about enabling organizations to lead with confidence in a connected world,” he concluded.
Unified platform with complete visibility
Armis highlights its commitment to a unified asset intelligence platform that reinforces cybersecurity through complete and contextual visibility of all digital environments. This platform combines advanced analytics, automation, and AI-based predictive models to proactively improve cybersecurity. Thanks to this approach, organizations can not only detect threats, but anticipate them, reduce their exposure and respond in seconds to increasingly autonomous and targeted attacks.
With these forecasts, Armis reaffirms its commitment to helping companies, governments and institutions face 2026 with confidence, transforming cybersecurity into a strategic advantage that drives resilience, innovation and the protection of critical services in an increasingly interconnected world.
