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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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's Acquisition of Jit and the Rise of Context-Driven SecOps

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

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

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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Why Cisco Paid $400M to Secure the Identities No One Is Watching

The broad digital landscape in recent years has seen a massive increase in non-human identities (NHIs), including API and access keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and AI agents. These identities now outnumber human users by…

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Suzu Labs Acquires Emulated Criminals to Make the Case That Cybersecurity's Most Critical Decisions Can't Be Automated

Enterprise security programs have largely been built around periodic assessments and checkbox frameworks, designed to ensure bare-minimum compliance with regulations to avoid penalties. The annual or quarterly testing cycles accompanying this approach create dangerous blind…

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Why Palo Alto's $400M Koi Acquisition Signals a New Security Imperative

Traditional endpoint security measures and tools were built around the assumption of human actors, rendering them ineffective in modern environments. Organizations often extend implicit trust to developer tooling and third-party software rather than dedicating resources…

CyberEdge 2026 Cyberthreat Defense Report

CyberEdge’s 2026 Cyberthreat Defense Report Signals AI-Driven Upheaval for Security Teams

The newly released 2026 Cyberthreat Defense Report from CyberEdge Group paints a clear picture: artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool in cybersecurity—it’s a disruptive force reshaping both the threat landscape and the workforce…

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Cisco's Acquisition of Galileo and the Rise of Agentic Observability

The AI boom continues to bring new developments and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. Agentic AI systems are now embedded in software development, content creation, and customer support workflows in an effort to…

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