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Torq has just crossed a symbolic and very real threshold, announcing a $140 million Series D that lifts the company to unicorn status with a $1.2 billion valuation and total funding of $332 million. Led by Merlin Ventures, with participation from existing backers Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, and Greenfield Partners, … [Read more...] about Torq Raises $140M Series D, Reaches $1.2B Valuation as Agentic AI Redefines the SOC

CrowdStrike’s decision to acquire SGNL for roughly $740 million is less about adding another feature to the Falcon platform and more about formalizing a strategic pivot the cybersecurity industry has been circling for years. Endpoint security, once the undisputed frontline, is increasingly secondary to identity, because attackers no longer need to break systems when they can … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike–SGNL Deal Signals Identity’s Promotion to the Center of Cyber Defense

CrowdStrike is leaning hard into the idea that the next real breakthroughs in cybersecurity won’t come from incremental updates to legacy platforms, but from smaller, faster teams building cloud-native and AI-first defenses from day one. The company just announced the 35 startups selected for the third edition of its Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, run in close partnership … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Backs the Next Wave of AI-Native Cybersecurity Startups

Afero has teamed up with Texas Instruments, and while partnerships get announced all the time, this one actually feels like it matters. The goal isn’t just another smart-home stack or yet another “secure” IoT promise. The idea is to make connected devices genuinely easier to build, harder to break, and more dependable, starting from the chip itself. Texas Instruments’ first … [Read more...] about Afero and Texas Instruments Redefine Cybersecurity at the IoT Edge

Momentum in the managed security world tends to show up quietly at first, then all at once, and this year it shows up clearly in the latest MSSP Alert rankings. Stellar Cyber, the AI-native, open and unified SecOps platform provider, has been named the number two vendor overall in the MSSP Alert 2025 Top 250 MSSPs report, a position determined directly by votes from the global … [Read more...] about Stellar Cyber Climbs to #2 in MSSP Alert 2025 Rankings, Signaling Deepening Trust Across the Global SecOps Ecosystem

In partnership with C1, the Texas Southern University has launched a state-of-the-art Cybersecurity Lab designed from the ground up to mirror real-world environments. This isn’t a symbolic ribbon-cutting space or a future promise; it’s a working lab, co-designed and built by C1 experts alongside TSU students themselves, where theory immediately collides with practice in a way … [Read more...] about C1 and Texas Southern University Launch Cybersecurity Lab, Houston, Texas

A sizable and consequential move unfolded this week as General Dynamics Information Technology, the IT services arm of General Dynamics, secured a $285 million contract from the Commonwealth of Virginia to reinforce the state’s cybersecurity infrastructure. Awarded in October, the agreement stretches well beyond a simple services deal: a one-year transition period sets the … [Read more...] about GDIT Wins $285M Cybersecurity Contract to Fortify Virginia’s Digital Backbone

At first glance, the idea of ServiceNow spending up to seven billion dollars on Armis might look like yet another big-tech land grab into cybersecurity, but that reading misses the more interesting part. This isn’t a defensive move or a late pivot into security hype; it’s a fairly logical extension of what ServiceNow has been quietly building for years. Its core business has … [Read more...] about Why ServiceNow Wants Armis: Security as the Missing Layer in the Entrprise Workflow Empire