Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Tracker
Reported mergers, acquisitions, and funding across the cybersecurity industry, public and private companies alike, aggregated from the tracked news feeds. This is market context, not a security signal.
This page is shown, not scored. Nothing here changes any vulnerability's priority, severity, exploitation status, or exposure. Coverage is what the tracked news feeds reported and the pipeline classified as industry mergers, acquisitions, or funding, so it is a running digest, not an exhaustive deal database. Each entry links to the reporting source, the titles and summaries are the pipeline's own, and no article text is mirrored here.
47 reported items, newest first.
Abstract, a security operations platform company, has raised $25 million in its latest funding round, bringing total capital raised to approximately $50 million. The company plans to use the investment to expand its composable security operations platform.
Palo Alto Networks announced an acquisition of Embrace, an observability platform provider, extending its expansion into monitoring and observability tools beyond traditional security offerings. This follows the company's January acquisition of Chronosphere, signaling a strategic shift toward broader infrastructure visibility capabilities.
Palo Alto NetworksStrongestLayer, a security startup, announced a seed funding extension of $4.1 million. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate its market launch and expand its platform offerings.
Endpoint security startup Glow launched with $180 million in Series B funding, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation. The company uses AI-driven adaptive prevention capabilities that map environments, analyze risks, and automate policy enforcement.
Empirical Security has secured 25 million dollars in Series A funding. The company will allocate the investment toward advancing its threat prediction and discovery product offerings.
Beacon Security, a startup focused on security data platforms, has raised $13 million in funding. The company provides detection, hunting, and asset protection capabilities across multiple environments at scale.
Risk Ledger, a British firm, secured $32 million in Series B funding for its collaborative platform designed to help organizations manage supply chain security risks.
A former DeepMind researcher has raised funding at a $300 million pre-seed valuation to work on visual AI systems. The funding round precedes the actual product launch.
Oak, an identity management startup, has exited stealth mode with $60 million in funding to develop an AI-powered Identity Operating System designed to manage and govern all identities across an organization's environment.
Cribl has acquired CardinalOps to integrate detection engineering capabilities into its platform. The acquisition enables security operations teams to map detection rules to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, identify coverage gaps, and operationalize threat intelligence.
Valarian, a UK-based cybersecurity firm, has raised $50 million in funding for its ACRA (Sovereign Infrastructure Control Layer) technology, bringing total funding to $70 million. The company is developing infrastructure control solutions for sovereign and critical systems.
Silent Push has launched an official Channel Partner Program and dedicated partner portal to scale its threat intelligence platform across distributors, MSSPs, systems integrators, and resellers. The company offers partners branded assets, collateral, and enablement resources to market its Indicators of Future Attack (IOFA) technology, which provides visibility into adversary infrastructure before weaponization. The program formalizes existing partnerships across EMEA, APJ, and other regions, with new partner onboarding and training content planned for the coming weeks.
A total of 37 cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions were announced during June 2026, involving major companies including 1Password, Accenture, Cisco, F5, Rubrik, and SailPoint. The article provides a roundup of these transaction announcements in the cybersecurity sector.
CiscoF5Israeli startup QIZ Security has raised $17 million in funding for a platform that manages cryptographic posture and post-quantum cryptography governance. The platform appears designed to help organizations assess and manage their cryptographic infrastructure as they prepare for quantum-resistant algorithms.
8Layers, a Spanish startup focused on digital identity protection, has completed an extended pre-seed funding round raising 2.9 million dollars, just two months after its platform launch.
A cybersecurity startup called IRIS C2 that claims to acquire zero-day exploits and offer million-dollar payouts is operated by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, two convicted felons with a documented history of creating fake intelligence companies and spreading disinformation. The pair have faced multiple criminal convictions and civil judgments related to robocall schemes, telecommunications fraud, and civil rights violations. IRIS C2 is registered as a federal contractor but does not appear to be executing any direct government contracts.
The company Keyfactor announced a funding round exceeding $1 billion to advance its machine identity, public key infrastructure (PKI), and cryptographic security platform. The investment is intended to support product development for emerging threats from artificial intelligence and post-quantum computing.
IBM and Red Hat are dedicating 20,000 engineers to Project Lightwell, a new service focused on securing the open source software supply chain, prompted by vulnerability findings from Anthropic's Mythos research. The initiative reflects growing industry concern about security gaps in widely-used open source components and the scale of effort required to address them.
LinuxCisco has acquired Astrix and WideField to expand its security platform with capabilities for managing identity in agentic environments, reflecting industry momentum toward identity-centric security controls.
CiscoGoogle has completed its acquisition of Wiz, the cloud security company. The deal marks Google's significant expansion into cloud and AI security capabilities.
GoogleWiz has announced the Wiz Partner Alliance, a new initiative for partner engagement in cloud security. The program appears designed to strengthen collaboration between Wiz and its partners in the cloud security space.
Huntress has acquired Inside Agent to expand its security offerings with an identity and access provisioning management (ISPM) solution. The acquisition aims to strengthen Huntress's capabilities in proactive defense against cyberattacks through identity security enhancements.
Huntress marked a decade of operations with a retrospective highlighting key milestones and lessons learned in defending against evolving threats. The company emphasized its role in community-driven cybersecurity and innovation throughout its ten-year history.
Cloud security firm Wiz announced an acquisition of Dazz, a company focused on application security posture management (ASPM). The combined entity aims to integrate remediation capabilities across the software development lifecycle, from code to cloud deployment.
Huntress has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) to enhance security capabilities for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Microsoft tools. This partnership aims to strengthen defenses against advanced cyber threats through integrated security solutions.
MicrosoftHuntress has received an Inc. Power Partner Award for 2024, marking the second consecutive year the cybersecurity company has received this recognition. The award acknowledges contributions from the company's partners.
Wiz has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), a collaborative initiative focused on improving cloud security. The partnership aims to enhance security outcomes through integrated solutions and shared expertise between the two organizations.
MicrosoftWiz has been named Microsoft's Commercial Marketplace 2024 Partner of the Year in recognition of its go-to-market and joint-selling efforts. The award acknowledges Wiz's collaboration with Microsoft and performance within the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
MicrosoftHuntress announced a Series D funding round led by CEO Kyle Hanslovan. The investment will support the company's continued growth and partner enablement in the cybersecurity market.
A company announced a $1 billion funding round that valued the organization at $12 billion. The announcement included acknowledgment of stakeholders including customers, investors, and employees.
Wiz has acquired Gem Security to strengthen its cloud detection and response capabilities. The acquisition is part of Wiz's strategy to consolidate technology and enhance threat detection offerings for cloud environments.
Wiz has acquired Raftt, a developer-focused security tool. This acquisition is intended to help Wiz accelerate its efforts to build products that appeal to both security and development teams.
PwC UK and Wiz announced a strategic partnership to provide enhanced cloud security solutions to customers. The alliance combines PwC's consulting expertise with Wiz's cloud security platform capabilities.
Huntress has released an update on its Security Awareness Training platform one year after acquiring Curricula, highlighting improvements and progress made during that period. The announcement reflects the company's continued development of its awareness training offerings for organizations.
Huntress, a cybersecurity company focused on small and medium-sized businesses, has secured $60 million in Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from existing investors Forgepoint Capital and JMI Equity. The funding will support Huntress's mission to help SMBs enhance their business asset protection capabilities. This round indicates continued investor confidence in the SMB security market.
MGM Studios' Chief Information Security Officer discusses how the organization uses Wiz to enable collaboration and transparency across business units during a merger. The article highlights approaches to security governance and organizational integration during a significant corporate transaction.
Wiz reached a $10 billion valuation in just three years from its founding, becoming the world's largest cybersecurity unicorn and the fastest SaaS company to achieve this milestone.
Wiz, a cloud security company, has achieved 100 million dollars in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of launch, making it reportedly the fastest-growing software company to reach that milestone. The company serves hundreds of major organizations and focuses on enabling secure cloud development.
Wiz, a cloud security company, has added Emily Heath to its board of directors and expanded its executive team with experienced security leaders from major technology and professional services firms. The company is continuing to scale its leadership structure to support ongoing growth.
OktaWiz, a cloud security vendor, has achieved rapid growth, reaching $100 million annual recurring revenue within 18 months of reaching $1 million ARR. The company now serves hundreds of customers focused on cloud infrastructure protection and innovation acceleration.
Huntress has acquired Curricula, a story-based security awareness training platform. The acquisition is part of Huntress's strategy to expand its security offerings to small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises.
Huntress has donated $100,000 to the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) bug bounty program. The contribution reflects Huntress's commitment to supporting the managed service provider (MSP) community's cybersecurity efforts through vulnerability research and disclosure initiatives.
Wiz announced completion of its Series C funding round, achieving a $6 billion valuation within 18 months of operation. The company positions itself as a solution for organizations struggling to manage increasingly complex cloud environments.
Wiz, a cloud security company, raised an additional $250 million in funding during the first half of 2021, bringing its total funding to $350 million. The capital injection from investors including Sequoia and Salesforce enabled the company to expand its headcount from 25 to 120 employees during that period.
SalesforceWiz completed its Series B funding round with an additional $120 million investment from Salesforce Ventures and Blackstone, along with participation from Aglaé Ventures. The round was previously announced in March and has now closed with these additional backers joining the effort.
SalesforceHuntress announced a Series B funding round as part of its growth strategy. The company aims to expand its platform capabilities to enhance security protection for its customers.
Wiz, a cloud security company, has raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Cyberstarts. The funding marks the company's emergence from stealth mode as it pursues its mission in cloud security.
Aggregated from the cybersecurity news feeds this tracker follows. Each item links to its original reporting source; attribution stays with that source.