Identity M&A: the shopping trolley is full
Cisco–Astrix and SailPoint–Entro both closed on 29 June, Okta–Permiso on 26 August and Cyera–Oasis on 3 September, and every one of them is about…
Category: Acquisitions
Palo Alto and Clutch: one source, much smoke
TechCrunch reported on 5 November that Palo Alto Networks is in talks to buy Clutch, an AI agent security startup, for $500M in cash…
Workday wants to govern your agents too
Workday announced on 13 October that it will buy C1 (formerly ConductorOne), because an HR system now wishes to be “the identity governance layer…
CrowdStrike buys a red team and a chaperone
On 3 November CrowdStrike announced Dreadnode (automated attack testing for AI agents) and Fiddler (agent observability), so testing, runtime protection and observability now sit…