CrowdStrike announces its intent to buy Seraphic Security and SGNL, kicking-off the industry's 2026 M&A activity!

As the cybersecurity industry looks ahead to 2026, the challenge is not a lack of predictions, but an overabundance of them—many detached from operational reality or focused on singular technologies in isolation. This blog takes a more grounded view, examining how advances in artificial intelligence, defensive AI automation, and cryptographic resilience intersect with geopolitical instability and long-standing threat behaviors. Rather than treating 2026 as a sharp inflection point, what...

In the cybersecurity industry, 2025 was a notable year. At one end of the scale, startups emerged from stealth following multi-million-dollar equity injections by well-funded, private investment firms. At the other end, security product and services vendors continued to consolidate, following an uptick in acquisition activity, fueled by eye-watering levels of cash injections. Many purchasers were known serial acquirers – Google buying Wiz, Palo Alto Network’s purchasing of CyberArk and...