Top Cyberthreats in 2026: Agentic AI Will Trigger a Breach
A new Forrester report predicts that agentic AI will cause a public breach in 2026, leading to employee dismissals.
The report outlines five key shifts that CISOs should prepare for as cybersecurity threats become more autonomous, geopolitical, and fragmented.
According to Paddy Harrington, senior analyst at Forrester, security leaders need to rethink how they deploy and govern agentic AI automation before it creates systemic failure.
When you tie multiple agents together and you allow them to take action based on each other, at some point, one fault somewhere is going to cascade and expose systems.
See also: AI Agents Demand Scalable Identity Security Frameworks.
Author's summary: Agentic AI to cause public breach in 2026.