From trust to turbulence: Cyber's road ahead in 2026

From trust to turbulence: Cyber's road ahead in 2026 As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks Three west London councils hit by a cyber attack continue to investigate as services remain disrupted nearly two weeks on Constrained budgets left security teams short-handed in 2025 With 2024 seeing surges in security funding cuts, lay-offs and hiring freezes, 2025 brought some relief for cyber pros, but constrained budgets are leaving security teams short-staffed Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies In an AI-first world, the future of cyber security is its workforce The cyber security industry will experience immense change due to AI by 2030, so both employers and professionals need to grasp the nettle, and quickly, if they are to have the right skills and experience in place to succeed Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war Russia is deploying hybrid warfare against Europe as western nations supply critical IT and telecoms equipment to Ukraine's front line Fujitsu police contract 'complicates' Post Office investigation National Police investigation into Post Office scandal uses IT infrastructure provided by Fujitsu In 2026, collaboration, honesty and humility in cyber are key As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act Campaigners celebrate as security minister Dan Jarvis commits to amending the outdated Computer Misuse Act to protect security professionals from prosecution NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks A protective service jointly developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites UK national security strategy failing to account for online world The UK government's national security strategy is falling short on online matters, according to the independent reviewer of terrorism Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando Florence Mottay moved from mathematics to software engineering, and is now leading security at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer Low-code challenges: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast We speak to Conor Riordan, chair of the UK & Ireland SAP user group about how IT needs a new way to work with the business Post Office avoids £1m fine over botched website upgrade data breach The Information Commissioner's Office considered fining the Post Office £1m for a 2024 data breach that let subpostmasters down again Post Office finally investigates Horizon defect, but investigator slams comms strategy Subpostmaster and investigator met the Post Office over Horizon defect raised six years earlier AWS CEO Garman pitches 'billions of agents' as enterprise AI future At Amazon Web Services' annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers' own data UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was 'shambolic' says Parliamentary committee The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reports that China was engaged in malicious cyber attacks against UK Parliament and democratic institutions Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk Nine months after restructuring its go-to-market, Okta is buoyed by a growing recognition of how crucial identity has become thanks to the spread of AI agents Use of digital ID in UK achieves statutory status A formal regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services - just as the UK government presses ahead with its controversial plan for a national ID scheme Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope

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