Here's What Cloud Security's Future Holds For The Year Ahead
Dark Reading, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Here are the top cloud security trends I'm seeing in my crystal ball for the New Year - particularly arming us for AI adoption.
Cloud service providers (CSPs) play an important role in democratizing usage of technology to enable innovation. With cloud platforms, organizations do not need to worry about provisioning hardware and computing infrastructure; they can utilize cloud services and cloud-native development processes to easily build and deploy software applications.
Now, as organizations are racing to adopt AI for its benefits, CSPs are fiercely competing to be the platform of choice for AI workloads and similarly democratize access to AI innovation. In recent Omdia by informaTechTarget research on the state of cloud security, 99% of organizations said they are currently (86%) or planning to (13%) use cloud services to run AI workloads.