Today, we’re publishing insights on the cybersecurity trends and challenges we anticipate in 2027, including agentic threats, changing attack tactics, and the new security defense approaches required.
This year we’ve witnessed a fundamental change in cybersecurity. When the year began, only a few organizations were using LLMs and agents to find and fix vulnerabilities. Today, it’s happening at scale across enterprises.
Organizations expected a reality with agentic hacking where scale, speed and sophistication would outpace human-only response; today, we’re seeing it in practice. Organizations predicted software development at an unheard of pace; today, we’re securing software delivered in hours and days instead of weeks and months.
We have passed many milestones, and the world won’t go back — and we are all digging in to fully understand the new reality.
The year ahead promises to be challenging, exciting, innovative and will outpace 2026. In the year ahead, enterprise software will change as agility and speed provided by agentic development shifts us from a collection of static applications to a live fabric of autonomous agents that can manage pricing, negotiate supplier contracts, allocate capital, and reroute supply chains in real time.
To make this vision a reality, many organizations are rushing to build agents. It’s on us as an industry to ensure the development and operations models are designed to be trustworthy and safe.
The risks in 2027 won’t be just server outages or stolen databases. As the agentic operations world takes off, we also need to be concerned about the data and technology foundation that agents rely on.
