If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, 2026 is when AI evolves from a software story to a people story. Katya Laviolette, our Chief People Officer, explored this idea in a recent Forbes article about how 1Password’s internal network of AI Champions is shaping this evolution and helping us set the standard for how we use AI to drive impact across 1Password.

In the early days of IT, cybersecurity was like a digital burglar alarm—it chirped after someone already broke a window. But as we move through 2026, the game has fundamentally changed. We are no longer just fighting “hackers”; we are navigating a global landscape where cyberspace is the invisible frontline of international conflict. With war tensions escalating across the globe, the digital world has become a primary theater for state-sponsored attacks.

Researchers at Permiso warn that threat actors can plant phishing messages within Copilot AI summaries. Notably, the researchers found that attackers can trick Copilot into including internal information to craft a more targeted message.

It’s the notification we’ve all learned to dread:“Your information was found in a dark web leak.” If you’ve seen this alert recently, you’re in crowded company. In the first quarter of 2026 alone, India has faced an unprecedented wave of Digital Exploitation, with nearly 500 major breach events tracked globally and a significant portion targeting the rapidly digitizing Indian SME sector.

In the financial services industry, a "security incident" is rarely just an IT ticket. It is a regulatory event. Whether you are a bank, a global investment firm, or a fintech startup, your email environment is the most targeted entry point for attackers and the most common exit point for sensitive data.

AI or artificial intelligence has significantly altered how we work. From customer support bots to internal copilots, they help teams move faster and smarter. But there is a growing concern that many companies are still not ready for. It is data leakage in AI. When an AI agent accidentally or unknowingly shares private information with the wrong person or another system, it is called a data leak. When AI systems handle sensitive data, even a small mistake can expose private information.

Network engineers have long understood redundancy. Redundant power, redundant links, redundant clusters. The reasoning is simple: any single component that can fail, will. But AI introduces a category of failure that most infrastructure teams have not yet built defenses against. Unlike hardware, AI models can become unavailable for reasons entirely outside your organization's control.

I just came across the Zero Day Clock, and I love it. Everyone should go there, see the stats, see the trends, and figure out what that means for your ongoing and future patch management plans.

Malwarebytes warns that a phishing campaign is using Google Calendar invites to send phony renewal notices for Malwarebytes subscriptions. The calendar invites contain a phone number that will connect the user with a scammer. “The amounts in these fake invites are large and attention-grabbing, usually several hundred dollars for multiple years of service,” Malwarebytes says.