2026 AI Security Predictions - The Any-Identity Crisis, Breach-By-Exhaust, The Rise Of Autonomous Adversaries
HPCwire, Monday, December 29th, 2025
History shows that large technology shifts often tend to have a major impact on enterprise security. Mainframe computing concentrated risk in one place. Cloud computing moved data out of physical walls. Mobile computing dissolved the idea of a fixed user. Each of these shifts, in its own way, forced security teams to rethink assumptions that at that time felt solid.
We can now add the recent rise of GenAI to that list. It is taking security threats and responses to a whole new level. As AI models reason, retain context, and act with increasing independence, they are changing how systems themselves behave.
So, how do companies identify what the systems are supposed to do, or not do? What if the very systems designed to identify the security threats become the weakest link in the chain? Let's try to understand that.
At BigDATAwire, we recently covered predictions related to agentic AI and AI infrastructure for 2026 by reviewing a wide range of industry predictions and forward-looking assessments. For this article, we also analyzed many predictions from industry experts. We grouped those predictions into the following three umbrella categories.