Cloud Security 2026 Challenges, Predictions and How to Win

Is your cloud security team fighting tomorrow’s cloud battles with yesterday’s tools and tactics? By 2026, AI-powered threats will exploit cloud environments at machine-speed while your human analysts struggle to keep pace. The expanding gap between threat sophistication and defensive capabilities creates an existential risk for organizations clinging to traditional security approaches.

Are you ready for the state of cloud security in 2026?

  • 68% of cyber threat analysts report that AI-generated phishing attempts are harder to detect in 2025 than in any previous year. (source: SQ Magazine)
  • 65% of organizations struggle with tracking and monitoring risks from third-party integrated apps and rectifying SaaS misconfigurations (source: CSA)
  • Many organizations (59%) identified insecure identities and risky permissions as the top security risk to their cloud infrastructure. (source: CSA)
  • More than a third (34%) of organizations with AI workloads have already experienced an AI-related breach. (source: CSA)

The cybersecurity world never stops changing and you can’t afford to sit still. Read this paper to get ahead of tomorrow’s threats, before they get ahead of you.

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