2026 is here, and the cloud security landscape is shifting rapidly. AI is reshaping how attackers operate, supply chains remain under siege, and the definition of resilience itself is evolving. With organizations now at a critical juncture, the security leaders and teams that thrive this year will be those who embrace transformation rather than resist it.
“In 2026, the leaders who win will treat AI as a business capability, not a side project,” Gil Geron, co-founder and CEO at Orca Security said in a recent blog post on the top cloud security predictions for this year. “The best CISOs and CEOs will set clear rules for where AI can help, how decisions get made, and how results are measured.”
Cybersecurity unicorn Orca is more than an innovator and a thought leader in the cloud security space—they’re creators of it. Their founders understood that modern computing technologies and the cloud required a re-architecture of security, so they set out to change the game.
In 2021, Orca made headlines for raising $640 million since its founding. By that time, the company had boosted its valuation to $1.8 billion.
Backed by Temasek, CapitalG, ICONIQ Capital, Redpoint Ventures and others, Orca is trusted by hundreds of organizations, including SAP, Gannett, Autodesk, Unity, Lemonade and Digital Turbine.
In a new Cybercrime Magazine video, Geron, a cloud security pioneer, talks about the past, present, and future of Orca.
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