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AI Security in 2026: Eight Trends that Will Shape the Next Era

Enterprises have spent the past several years experimenting with AI agents—as copilots, autonomous assistants, workflow optimizers, and increasingly as independent decision-makers embedded in complex systems. In 2026, this experimentation phase ends. It becomes the year enterprises are forced to confront the operational, security, and architectural realities of agentic AI at scale.
 
As organizations integrate agents deeper into workflows, they will discover that the promise of productivity arrives with new forms of risk—rooted in human-factor failures, novel attack surfaces, and the need for entirely new governance and infrastructure layers.
 
This paper:
 

• Outlines the eight AI security trends every security and governance leader must prepare for
• Examines the risks enterprises will face as automated work accelerates
• Details the structural and architectural changes required to keep pace
• Provides guidance on how to prepare for this emerging threat landscape