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When a cyber incident hits, the first question organisations often ask is “who’s responsible?”. However, the more important question is “who is accountable?”.

As cyber threats continue to grow in volume, speed and sophistication, organisations face a big challenge. How do you achieve round-the-clock security coverage that is globally consistent, yet locally relevant to your business, your region and your regulatory environment?

In 2026, the landscape of ransomware attacks will continue to evolve, drawing from past trends while adapting to new defences and technologies. This blog will look into how ransomware is changing in 2026.

Business Email Compromise remains one of the most effective and damaging cybercrime techniques in use today. Unlike ransomware or malware-driven attacks, BEC does not rely on exploits or malicious payloads. It relies on people, trust, and routine business processes. That is precisely why it continues to succeed, even in organisations with mature technical security controls.

The PCI Security Standards Council has released version 2.0 of the Secure Software Standard and its accompanying Program Guide, marking the most significant revision since the framework's inception in 2019. This update fundamentally reshapes how payment software is assessed and validated, introducing new terminology, expanded scope, and streamlined processes that will impact vendors, assessors, and customers across the payment ecosystem.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence across business feels new, urgent and at times overwhelming. Yet for many technology and security leaders, there is a strong sense of déjà vu. The conversations happening today about AI adoption closely mirror those that surrounded early cloud adoption more than a decade ago. The same mixture of excitement, scepticism, regulatory anxiety and skills shortages is resurfacing, just with different technology at the centre. 

Data privacy remains one of the most critical business issues in 2026, but the conversation has matured. Data is still one of the most valuable assets most organisations possess, yet it is now more distributed, more interconnected and more exposed than ever before. Cloud platforms, AI systems, third-party integrations and machine identities mean data is constantly being accessed, processed and moved in ways that are not always fully understood.

Modern cyber attacks aren’t defined by single vulnerabilities or isolated failures. They succeed by exploiting combinations of weaknesses, misconfigurations, identity gaps, and blind spots in detection. Yet many organisations still approach security as a set of disconnected activities: exposure management on one side and threat detection on the other. 

Operational Technology environments are under growing pressure to connect. Business demands for remote access, real-time data, analytics, and integration with enterprise systems are continuing to rise. At the same time, regulatory scrutiny and threat activity targeting industrial systems have increased. Organisations must enable connectivity without compromising safety, reliability, or operational resilience. 

Deepfake video, synthetic voice, and AI-generated personas are now capable of mimicking real people with unsettling accuracy. For many organisations, the challenge is no longer spotting a poorly written phishing email, but determining whether the person on the phone, in a video call, or in an email thread is even real.

As organisations move into 2026, the question is no longer whether an incident will occur, but how well a business can withstand it, contain it, and recover without serious disruption. This shift in thinking reflects a broader change in the industry, one that is redefining what resilience really means in an era shaped by automation, AI and human decision making.

Leading Canadian cybersecurity services provider Advantus360 joins Integrity360 creating the group’s first hub in North America