AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom

Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.

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Surging demand for native-AI cybersecurity services (and the security capabilities needed to tame agentic AI) has put 2026 on the path to become another record-breaking year for cybersecurity-startup acquisitions.

While the value of financing deals is on track to decline slightly this year — dropping to an annualized 754 funding rounds, from 820 last year — the number of mergers and acquisitions should reach 450 deals, up from 404 transactions last year, according to the latest report from Momentum Cyber, a cybersecurity investment firm. Identity and access management, non-human identity, data…