AI Model Poisoning, Uneven Regulation, and the New Battle for Digital Trust: Top Predictions for 2026 Revealed
The next wave of supply-chain breaches go beyond exploiting software dependencies and weaponize the trust layer between organizations and their vendors/partners. Off-the-shelf toolkits, some of them state-sponsored, are lowering the barrier to entry for third-party compromises. As a result, regulators are hard-coding “continuous verification” into frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act.