"The winning security programs in 2026 and beyond aren't the ones ingesting the most data. They're the ones who can route, reshape, and reuse it on demand." — Nicole Beckwith, Senior Director, Security Engineering & Operations, Cribl.
Cloud expansion, AI, distributed systems, and sprawling internet-facing infrastructure are reconfiguring how organizations defend themselves. The report surveyed ten core segments — from identity and telemetry to human security and cloud — and paints a consistent picture: security is shifting away from isolated, point solutions toward continuous visibility, control, and automated response across identities, devices, and data.
Identity Security — Keeper Security
Identity has moved to the front line of defense as cloud services, remote work, automation, and AI agents multiply the identities that require access. The report says organizations are adopting continuous governance and least-privilege principles for both human and non-human identities. Darren Guccione, CEO & Co-Founder of Keeper Security, warns that "Managing multiple disconnected tools is itself a security liability," underscoring a push toward tighter control and fewer tool silos.
Telemetry & Data Management — Cribl
Security teams are producing far more telemetry than before, but volume alone does not equal visibility. The report highlights an industry shift: teams are focused on routing, structuring, retaining, and reusing telemetry between tools — and AI introduces fresh requirements for data quality and monitoring. Cribl's framing is explicit: the advantage goes to programs that can manipulate telemetry on demand rather than merely ingesting the most logs.
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See what we buildHuman Security and AI-Driven Social Engineering — Adaptive Security
AI-powered social engineering is changing the attack surface. The report notes that phishing, voice cloning, deepfakes, and impersonation are easier to create and scale, making annual awareness sessions inadequate. Andrew Jones, Co-Founder & CPO of Adaptive Security, argues that "Traditional awareness programs weren’t built for today’s threats. Human security must be continuous, personalized, and responsive to real-world risk," a prescription that moves training toward ongoing, individualized simulations and risk-based interventions across email, voice, SMS, and video.
Cloud Security and AI-Native Security Operations — CrowdStrike and SentinelOne
Cloud environments are increasingly targeted by identity-driven attacks, with adversaries exploiting credentials, cloud configurations, and cloud controls to move through organizations. The report recommends unified, real-time protections spanning identity, endpoint, and cloud. As SentinelOne describes it, AI is being applied inside security operations to automate investigation, connect evidence, and reduce manual workload — "AI accelerates, supports and suggests, but does not replace human judgment," according to Paolo Cecchi. CrowdStrike cautions that "Traditional CDR capabilities that rely on static risk models and log batch processing... are simply too slow for today's threat landscape," arguing for faster, integrated detection and response in cloud settings.
Exposure, Endpoint, Email, and Connected Device Controls — Surf AI, Automox, Red Sift, Asimily
The report links several shifting priorities across infrastructure: exposure management is moving from one-time discovery to continuous reduction of the exposures that actually matter, with Surf AI noting that "Discovery is commoditized. The middle is hard." On endpoints, Automox advocates continuous patching, configuration management, and automated remediation — summarized as "Patch what's patchable, mitigate what isn't, and govern the endpoint continuously." For email and domain risk, Red Sift frames impersonation as an infrastructure problem that spans domains, DNS, certificates, and email: "Every part of the chain — email, domain, DNS, certificate — is a trust decision made in public infrastructure." Connected device security adds an operational constraint: Asimily emphasizes that knowing a device is at risk must culminate in enforced control that endures "as the fleet doubles."
How security teams, procurement leaders, and end users are responding
- Security teams and technologists: They are centralizing telemetry routing and adopting AI-assisted SOC tools to cut investigation time, while instituting continuous governance for identities and automated endpoint remediation.
- Procurement and enterprise leaders: Faced with the danger of disconnected toolchains, buyers are being pushed toward integrated controls that span identity, endpoint, cloud, and email/domain infrastructure to reduce operational fragmentation.
- End users and device owners: With AI-enabled impersonation on the rise, the report expects a shift from annual training to continuous, personalized human-security programs and more enforced device controls to keep risk visible and actionable.
The throughline is clear: threats now traverse identities, telemetry, and infrastructure, and defense is responding by closing the gaps between those domains. The vendors and executives quoted in the report converge on one point — continuous, cross-domain control and the ability to act at scale are the decisive requirements for 2026. Whether organizations can rewire people, processes, and telemetry to match that speed remains the pragmatic question the report leaves in front of them.
