Giulia Moschetta
Initiatives Lead, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum

Ellie Winslow
Coordinator, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum

Willem Buys
Security Manager, Accenture

Kilian Hayat
Security Consultant, Accenture

Frédéric Calbert
Data Intelligence and Visualisation Lead

Akshay Joshi
Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity, Member of the Executive Committee

Toms Bernhards Callahan
Research Specialist

Jacky Fox
Global Cyber Strategy Lead

Shachi Jain
Research Manager

Elian Manev
Technical Specialist

Yusof Seedat
Research Manager

Chiara Barbeschi
Specialist, Cyber Resilience, Centre for Cybersecurity

Filipe Beato
Manager, Cyber Resilience, Centre for Cybersecurity

Joanna Bouckaert
Community Lead, Centre for Cybersecurity

Seán Doyle
Lead, Cybercrime Atlas Initiative, Centre for Cybersecurity

Tal Goldstein
Head of Strategy, Centre for Cybersecurity

Isabella Kaplan
Community Specialist, Centre for Cybersecurity

Nataša Perucica
Project Lead, Centre for Cybersecurity

Luna Rohland
Specialist, Cyber Resilience, Centre for Cybersecurity

Apisada Suwansukroj
Lead, Programming and Communications, Centre for Cybersecurity

Natalia Umansky
Project Specialist, Cybercrime Atlas Initiative, Centre for Cybersecurity

The World Economic Forum would like to acknowledge the following organizations for their contributions to the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 survey: Cloud Security Alliance, Cyber Threat Alliance, CyberPeace Institute, Data Security Council of India (DSCI), Digi Americas Alliance, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), ISC2, National Cybersecurity Authority of Saudi Arabia, NUS-ISS, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Oxford University, Smart Africa, Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Centre (WB3C).

The Centre for Cybersecurity would like to thank the centre partners: Accenture, Aramco, Fortinet, IBM, Palo Alto Networks and Salesforce.

The World Economic Forum would like to thank the following individuals who shared their insights and knowledge in focus group interviews or community meetings.

Paige Adams
Zurich Insurance

Bushra AlBlooshi
Dubai Electronic Security Center

Hoda Al Khazimi
New York University Abu Dhabi

Hessah Almajhad
Saudi Institute Technology Company (SITE)

Yasser N. Alswailem
Saudi Telecom Company

Mandy Andress
Elastic

Hadi Anwar
CPX

Brad Arkin
Salesforce

Illena Armstrong
Cloud Security Alliance

Nik Bartholomew
Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Federico Blasiotti
Adecco Group

Christophe Blassiau
Schneider-Electric

Erik Blomberg
Handelsbanken

Stefan Braun
Henkel

Cristina Camacho
Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation

Ann Cleaveland
University of California, Berkeley

Anna Collard
KnowBe4

Belisario Contreras
Digi Americas

Karolina Czarkowska
Carlsberg Group

Michael Daniel
Cyber Threat Alliance

Miguel de Bruycker
Centre for Cybersecurity, Belgium

Fabio di Franco
European Union Agency for Cyber Security

Sabrina Feng
London Stock Exchange Group

Frank Fischer
DHL Group

Janus Friis Bindslev
PensionDanmark

Javier Garcia Quintela
Repsol

Michael Goodman
Hitachi

Carlo Hopstaken
EFG International

Öykü Işık
IMB Business School

Terje Jensen
Telenor

Shaun Khalfan
PayPal

Chan Meng Khoong
National University of Singapore

Sami Khoury
Communications Security Establishment, Canada

Motoyoshi Kurokawa
RIKEN

Sebastian Lange
SAP

Kris Lovejoy
Kyndryl

Luigi Martino
University of Florence

Michael Mestrovich
Rubrik

Deryck Mitchelson
Check Point Software Technologies

Paulo Moniz
EDP

Luis Filipe Morais
Galp Energia

Leslie Nielsen
Mimecast

Sameer Patil
Observer Research Foundation

Cezary Piekarski
Standard Chartered

Thelma Quaye
Smart Africa Secretariat

Jim Reavis
Cloud Security Alliance

Humberto Luiz Ribeiro da Silva
Ciberlab at University of Brasilia

Robert Rodger
Admiral Insurance

Christian Rossow
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Jason Ruger
Lenovo

Mehzad Sahar
Engro Corporation

Jamie Saunders
University of Oxford

Chua Kuan Seah
Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

Shlomo Serfaty
Israel National Cyber Directorate

Sachit Singh
OakNorth

Despina Spanou
European Commission

Confidence Staveley
CyberSafe Foundation

Diego Subero
Organization of American States (OAS)

Yann Sweeney
Springer Nature

Satoshi Takeda
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Kemba Walden
Paladin Capital Group

Wendi Whitmore
Palo Alto Networks

Carl Windsor
Fortinet

The authors are grateful to Shuyao Li, Cosima Piepenbrock, Aletta Steynberg, Jakub Tyrakowski and Kesang Tashi Ukyab for their contributions to the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026.

The World Economic Forum would like to acknowledge the following communities for their contributions to the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Community, the Partnership Against Cybercrime community, the Cyber Resilience in Industries community, the Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, the Global Future Council on Artificial General Intelligence, the Global Future Council on Clean Air, the Global Future Council on Data Frontiers, the Global Future Council on Decentralized Finance, the Global Future Council on Energy Technology Frontiers, the Global Future Council on Generative Biology, the Global Future Council on Geopolitics, the Global Future Council on Information Integrity, and the Global Future Council on Next Generation Computing.

Laurence Denmark
Creative Director, Studio Miko

Craig Hillsley
Editor, Astra Content

Alison Moore
Editor, Astra Content

Cat Slaymaker
Designer, Studio Miko