Organizations spent billions on cybersecurity in 2025. And yet, breaches persist. The reason often isn’t a zero-day or cutting-edge exploit, but misconfigurations hidden inside tools you already own.

According to one recent analysis, “Misconfigurations drive 80% of security exposures.”

Do you know what misconfigurations are hiding across your security stack? Are you able to identify them quickly and remediate?

Here are 10 critical cybersecurity misconfigurations we expect to see in 2026, and how you can identify and fix them before attackers can exploit them.