Gartner Identifies Four Critical Threats Requiring Urgent Improvements from Cybersecurity Leaders

There are four critical and unpredictable threats where attackers hold a significant advantage to successfully exploit weaknesses in targeted organizations according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. These include deepfakes, AI application compromise, prompt injection and software supply chains.

The Gartner ThreatScape (see Figure 1) categorizes the threats into six distinct areas along two axes:

• Differentiating threats based on the quality and volume of information (“threat signal”) available.
• Assessing threats based on organizational capabilities to manage them, and whether the threat actors hold an advantage.

The Gartner 2026-2027 ThreatScapeSource: Gartner (June 2026)

“The introduction of security initiatives by frontier AI companies creates significant noise to an already noisy threat landscape,” said John Watts, VP Analyst at Gartner. “Cybersecurity leaders must be able to find the threat signal in all the noise in order to respond to shifts in the threat landscape.”

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