Brinqa Leaders Featured in Solutions Review 2026 Cybersecurity Predictions
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The cybersecurity industry is rethinking how risk is managed at scale, and Brinqa leaders are part of that conversation in Solutions Review’s 2026 Cybersecurity Predictions.
The article brings together predictions from more than 140 contributors across the cybersecurity ecosystem, including CISOs, security executives, analysts, and technology leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, CyberArk, Zoom, and leading enterprise security teams. Together, these perspectives outline the forces shaping cybersecurity in 2026 – from AI-driven operations to the growing importance of data quality, context, and decision intelligence.
Brinqa was represented by two members of its executive leadership team:
Dan Pagel, CEO: AI Forces a Data Reckoning
Pagel’s prediction focuses on how AI will expose structural weaknesses in security programs, and accelerate those built on strong data foundations:
“AI is about to force a reckoning in cybersecurity. Not because it’s ‘smart,’ but because it’s fast – and when speed is paired with transparency, it exposes everything.
The real shift in 2026 will be AI stepping into the operator role… This only works if the underlying data is structured, complete, and continuously updated.
2026 is the year cybersecurity stops being a tooling problem and becomes a data and decisioning problem. And that’s long overdue.”
Brad Hibbert, CSO & COO: Exposure Management Becomes Agentic
Hibbert predicts that 2026 will mark a turning point in how exposure management programs operate, driven by the need to scale beyond human-limited processes:
“2026 will be the year exposure management shifts from reactive reporting to truly agentic intelligence.
Security teams continue to struggle with incomplete data, conflicting sources, cloud sprawl, nonstop change, and an overwhelming volume of security signals… The foundational problems of data quality, noise, and complexity cannot be solved at the human scale.
By the end of 2026, the most successful programs will rely on agentic AI as the engine of trustworthy and continuous exposure intelligence… This marks the transition from exposure visibility to exposure intelligence, and ultimately toward exposure autonomy.”
Together, these perspectives reinforce a common industry theme echoed throughout the Solutions Review article: the future of cybersecurity will be defined less by tools and more by data integrity, contextual intelligence, and the ability to act decisively at scale.
“By the end of 2026, the most successful programs will rely on agentic AI as the engine of trustworthy and continuous exposure intelligence… This marks the transition from exposure visibility to exposure intelligence, and ultimately toward exposure autonomy.”
Brad Hibbert, CSO & COO, Brinqa
Read the full article on Solutions Review
Cybersecurity Predictions from Industry Experts for 2026
