State of AI in the Cloud 2026: How AI is Reshaping Cloud Attack Surface

AI has moved from experimentation to infrastructure and it’s fundamentally changing how cloud environments are built, operated, and secured.

In this session, Wiz Research breaks down key findings from the State of AI in the Cloud Report 2026, including:

• Why AI is becoming operational infrastructure across cloud environments, often without centralized visibility or ownership

• How agents, MCP servers, and AI orchestration layers are creating new attack paths across cloud environments

• How AI is accelerating both innovation and attacker activity across cloud environments

We’ll go beyond the data to unpack what these trends actually mean for security leaders: how AI is changing the cloud operating model, where new exposure paths are emerging, and how security teams can adapt their strategies for increasingly automated environments.