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CyberFOX Optimize365 Microsoft 365 security https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-wearing-round-gold-colored-watch-using-black-tablet-computer-with-blue-detachable-keyboard-on-round-white-wooden-table-1181206/
CyberFOX Adds Microsoft 365 Security With Second Acquisition in Four Months
October 21, 2026
Global cybersecurity software provider CyberFOX recently announced the acquisition of Microsoft 365 security provider Optimize365. This deal follows the company’s June purchase of SASE provider Timus Networks, and both acquisitions are funded on the back…
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Socure Raises $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Buys Fravity to Fight AI Fraud
September 28, 2026
Trust infrastructure provider Socure recently announced a strategic growth investment round valuing the company at $5.2 billion, raising $156 million. The investors were led by Summit Partners and also included Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo,…
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Palo Alto Networks Buys Console to Automate Security Operations
September 27, 2026
For years now, alert volumes have consistently outpaced the capacity of human analysts to address and remediate every flagged issue. Traditional security operations center (SOC) workflows are built around dashboards, queues, and manual triage, often…
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Surfshark Acquires Data Removal Firm Optery in Second US Deal
September 15, 2026
Personal and private information has circulated since the advent of the internet and has been increasingly surfacing in recent years through search engines, broker databases, and AI summaries. Data brokers buy and sell this information,…
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Fortinet Acquires Virtue AI to Secure Autonomous Agents at Runtime
August 28, 2026
In recent years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and agents has reshaped the digital landscape and brought on many new and evolving risks. The deployment of autonomous AI agents in business environments…
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Okta Buys Permiso for $200 Million to Police AI Agents After Login
August 18, 2026
Identity and access management (IAM) company Okta recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, with the deal expected to close in Q3 of Okta’s 2027 fiscal year. While the exact terms of the…
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Cyera Adds Oasis Security for $1B to Close the AI Agent Identity Gap
August 11, 2026
The ongoing AI explosion and recent growth of agentic AI usage have created a security landscape with new and evolving risks. Enterprises are deploying AI agents within their networks at a rapid pace, outstripping any…
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Palo Alto Networks Buys Its Way Into Watching Everything
August 02, 2026
On July 21st, 2026, Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire user-focused observability provider Embrace under undisclosed terms. The deal adds Real User Monitoring (RUM) functionality to the company’s existing Observability platform. The acquisition…
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Telemetry Giant Bets $100M That the SIEM Era Is Ending
July 28, 2026
The state of the modern enterprise and security strategies has led to an environment where security teams are drowning in telemetry volume and alert noise, unable to adequately address real concerns among a flood of…
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Why Barracuda Bet Against the Platform Giants
July 22, 2026
In the era of AI, cyberattacks are increasingly targeting both human and non-human identities alike. As technology continues to advance, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate and manage sprawling, thinly resourced identity environments, often without…
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Inside Databricks' Bet on Agentic Security
July 12, 2026
The rising prevalence of AI tools in the past few years, and the more recent development of agentic AI, have not only been applied to personal and enterprise purposes, but also significantly shifted the threat…
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Accenture Is Repositioning OT Cybersecurity Around Asset Intelligence
July 05, 2026
In recent years, with rising geopolitical tensions, nation-state threat actors have been increasingly targeting industrial and critical infrastructure environments. Operational technology (OT) environments have historically been underprotected due to reliance on the assumed safety of…
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How a $200 Million Acquisition Exposes the Identity Crisis No One Is Watching
June 26, 2026
According to the Cloud Security Alliance’s recent report on The Non-Human Identity Governance Vacuum, non-human identities now outnumber human ones by roughly 45 to 1. These identities include API keys, tokens, and service accounts that…
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Dragos's Acquisition of Phosphorus Signals a Fundamental Rethink of Industrial Cybersecurity
June 16, 2026
For many years, operational technology (OT) security programs have been designed around the concept of a discrete, identifiable set of industrial control systems. Technologies traditionally relied upon, like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Distributed Control Systems…
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Zscaler’s Symmetry Deal Targets AI’s Growing Access-Control Problem
June 12, 2026
Zscaler has announced plans to acquire Symmetry Systems, a move aimed at giving enterprises better visibility into how AI agents, service accounts, and other non-human identities access applications and data. The proposed acquisition would add…
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Torq Jit AI SOC https://www.pexels.com/photo/futuristic-digital-tunnel-with-bright-led-lights-30547580/
Torq's Acquisition of Jit and the Rise of Context-Driven SecOps
June 08, 2026
Since the inception of AI security operations center (SOC) platforms, they have operated around and struggled against fragmented, context-free data. Architectures that center around security alerts treat each of these events in isolation, stripping out…
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Cyera’s $50M Genie Deal Signals the Rush for AI Security Startups
June 04, 2026
Cyera has acquired Genie Security, a five-person Israeli cybersecurity startup founded only months ago, in a deal reportedly worth about $50 million, underscoring how quickly larger security companies are moving to buy young teams building…
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Akamai's LayerX Acquisition Redraws the AI Governance Perimeter
June 03, 2026
In the ongoing AI boom, the adoption and implementation of AI tools and agents is rapidly outpacing the rate at which governance instrumentation is being built to contain and manage them. Previously existing controls like…
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