The World Economic Forum’s latest cybersecurity report shows that the real risk in 2026 isn’t weak tools—but collapsing trust, uneven governance, and institutions that can’t keep pace with automation.
The trust-as-attack-surface reframe is kind of unsettling. I've been in tech long enough to remeber when phishing emails were laughably obvious, and now deepfakes can impersonate your CEO on a video call. The fact that CEOs are more worried about fraud than ransomware tells you where the battleground actualy is. It's not about having better firewalls anymore, it's about whether you can even tell what's real.
The trust-as-attack-surface reframe is kind of unsettling. I've been in tech long enough to remeber when phishing emails were laughably obvious, and now deepfakes can impersonate your CEO on a video call. The fact that CEOs are more worried about fraud than ransomware tells you where the battleground actualy is. It's not about having better firewalls anymore, it's about whether you can even tell what's real.