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About the Report
In Predicts 2026: Emergent Critical Risks of AI in CPS Security, Gartner analysts Katell Thielemann and Wam Voster examine how the rapid adoption of AI in cyber-physical systems is reshaping risk across manufacturing, critical infrastructure, and other asset-intensive industries.
The report reveals that CPS environments are becoming high-stakes targets for cyberattacks that can cause real-world damage.
“Misconfigured AI in CPS can lead to catastrophic failures, including shutdowns of national infrastructure, with limited human oversight and opaque decision-making pipelines.”
The report authors also warn that adversaries are increasingly using AI to accelerate attacks, with implications for organizations that rely on legacy security models:
“AI will become weaponized to automate reconnaissance, exploit zero-days, and bypass traditional defenses — especially in environments where patching CPS is difficult or impossible.”
Why This Report Matters for Operations and Security Leaders
Traditional, IT-centric security approaches cannot provide sufficient protection for AI-driven CPS environments. The report emphasizes the need to move beyond vulnerability-focused defenses toward operational resilience, prioritizing controlled access, segmentation, containment, and the ability to sustain and recover operations even when incidents occur.
For plant managers, operations leaders, and security teams alike, this shift reflects a clear new reality: CPS security is no longer just an IT concern. It is now essential to maintaining safety, uptime, and business continuity.
What You’ll Learn
This Gartner report will help you understand:
How AI is changing the risk profile of cyber-physical systems, allowing cyber events to escalate into safety risks, physical damage, and operational disruptions
Why traditional IT-centric security approaches fall short in CPS and operational environments
Where remote access, third parties, and unmanaged connections introduce the greatest risk to critical operations
Why strong access governance is becoming a foundational control for CPS security and operational resilience
How segmentation and isolation help limit blast radius when CPS assets are compromised or misconfigured
What architectural and governance changes are needed as AI becomes increasingly embedded in physical systems
How to prepare incident response and recovery plans for cyber events that impact equipment, safety, and production
Gartner, Predicts 2026: Emergent Critical Risks of AI in CPS Security, Katell Thielemann, Wam Voster, 15 December 2025.
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