{"id":211209,"date":"2026-02-08T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:35:07","slug":"how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"How Global Power Struggles Are Rewriting Cyber Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense\">How Global Power Struggles Are Rewriting Cyber Defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 05:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    How are geopolitics impacting our cybersecurity world today?<\/p>\n<p>This is a question I ask early every year after global leaders assemble in Davos, Switzerland, for meetings of the World Economic Forum (WEF).<\/p>\n<p>Note: Last year\u2019s cyber analysis from the WEF can be seen here.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019c-33b8-d00a-a3ff-3fbc68070000\"\/><br \/>From the war in Ukraine to global tariffs to events in the Middle East to the NATO impacts resulting from President Donald Trump\u2019s desire to expand U.S. control over Greenland to different views on AI and energy \u2014 what are the important parts to diagnose and understand?<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"top-cyber-themes-from-davos\">TOP CYBER THEMES FROM DAVOS<\/h3>\n<p>Each year, the WEF releases their cybersecurity outlook for the coming year, and the 2026 document can be downloaded here.<\/p>\n<p>Some key insights (with charts and more details at their portal on each item) include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI is supercharging the cyber arms race: AI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in the year ahead, according to 94 percent of survey respondents.<\/li>\n<li>Geopolitics is a defining feature of cybersecurity: In 2026, geopolitics remains the top factor influencing overall cyber risk mitigation strategies. Some 64 percent of organizations are accounting for geopolitically motivated cyber attacks \u2014 such as disruption of critical infrastructure or espionage.<\/li>\n<li>Cyber-enabled fraud is threatening CEOs and households alike \u2014 In the survey, 73 percent of respondents reported that they or someone in their network had been personally affected by cyber-enabled fraud over the course of 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see a WEF video on these three trends here.<\/p>\n<p>There are also numerous detailed WEF cyber reports on various global topics that came out in the past three weeks which include topics such as:<\/p>\n<p>How cybersecurity can best navigate geopolitics to secure a resilient and open digital future<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCybersecurity has moved from a technical concern to a core element of geopolitical competition, shaping how states, companies and societies&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Global Power Struggles Are Rewriting Cyber Defense https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/blogs\/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity\/how-global-power-struggles-are-rewriting-cyber-defense Publish Date: 2026-02-08 05:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/7be241a\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5437x2643+0+497\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F15%2F45%2Fb959288f4b309c35c897a7fc771d%2Fadobestock-712187994-editorial-use-only.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211211,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211209\/revisions\/211211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}