Army CIO, ARCYBER host 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Forum

WASHINGTON – The Army Office of the Chief Information Officer and U.S. Army Cyber Command co-hosted the 2026 Army Cybersecurity Awareness Forum from Oct. 28 to 29. The two-day virtual event gathered senior Army leaders and cybersecurity professionals to discuss strategies for addressing emerging cyber threats. The annual forum focuses on strengthening the Army’s cybersecurity posture and workforce and improving incident response. This year’s theme was “Modernizing Army Cybersecurity for a Superintelligence-Enabled Threat Landscape.”

“Cybersecurity Awareness Month cannot be a box check,” said Lt. Gen. Christopher L. Eubank, commanding general of Army Cyber Command. “Superintelligence has put us in a place where everybody on this net now needs to secure and defend. When the network is compromised, our lethality is compromised. So, if the network is not good, the Army is not set to do what it needs to do in competition, crisis and conflict.” As commercial software and superintelligence technologies evolve at an accelerated rate, Army leaders noted that traditional approaches to network defense must adapt accordingly.

“We are seeing superintelligence advance at an unprecedented pace, bringing active security concerns across both defense and commercial sectors globally,” said Gabe Chiulli, acting Army chief information officer. “Adapting to this shift will require cybersecurity to take a fundamentally different approach than it has in the past.”

To meet these challenges, Chiulli highlighted the necessity of active cyber defense to identify, analyze and mitigate risks before software and hardware are fully integrated across enterprise and tactical environments.

“We need to be more proactive, and pushing the fight to the left is going to be our big drive next year,” Chiulli said. “We may encounter a few hiccups along the way, but we must keep an open mind as we ask this level of effort from our cybersecurity workforce.”

To keep pace with evolving threats, the Army is modernizing how it delivers cybersecurity training to Soldiers and civilian personnel, moving away from annual, time-consuming compliance courses toward continuous, digestible learning modules.

“We are shifting away from the way we used to do cyber awareness training,” Chiulli said. “We’re looking at taking it from what used to be a very mechanical training set into something that’s more regular, but in smaller defined increments, so cyber awareness training isn’t this big, one-to-four-hour block of activity. By breaking it into smaller increments, we turn cyber awareness training into active understanding, active acknowledgment and more active cyber awareness.”

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