Network security: SASE, zero trust, firewalls, secure service edge, and the security-to-network bandwidth trade.
In recent weeks, Cato Networks made clear it is deepening its position in AI security while building on its SASE foundation. The company launched Agentic Threat Prevention, disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the Cursor IDE through its Cato AI Labs, and reported that annualized recurring revenue has now passed $415… Read More »Cato Networks Pivots to Agentic AI Security as ARR Passes $415M
At Black Hat USA 2026, Cribl unwrapped a set of AI-era security capabilities for its existing platform. The headline is the AI Observability app, which puts token counts, spending, model uptake, and risk into a single view across teams and applications and flags sensitive data as it enters prompts and… Read More »Cribl Announces AI Observability at Black Hat
This week, Cribl announced it is acquiring CardinalOps, an agentic detection-engineering company, in a move that extends the firm beyond pipeline and routing into security operations. In the press release, Cribl positions itself as the AI Platform for Telemetry and frames the deal as adding detection capabilities that help customers… Read More »Cribl Enters SIEM Security Market
by by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / July 19, 2026 Fortinet announced new capabilities for its FortiEndpoint unified endpoint platform this week, designed to address a problem nearly every enterprise IT team is now grappling with: how to manage and secure the explosion of AI applications and agents running on… Read More »Fortinet Expands FortiEndpoint with New Capabilities for the AI Era
We attended the show in San Francisco this year and can say that it was obvious on many levels that AI was the theme. We say it’s obvious because, from our walks around the show floor, about half the booths were promoting Artificial Intelligence in some way. Additionally, we saw… Read More »RSA Conference 2026 – Agents and AI Theme
The accelerating adoption of AI is placing new demands on enterprise security infrastructure. As organizations deploy copilots, AI assistants, and autonomous agents, security platforms must analyze far more contextual and conversational traffic than traditional controls were designed to handle. Cato Networks is addressing this shift with Cato Neural Edge, embedding NVIDIA… Read More »Cato Networks Leverages NVIDIA Technology to Enhance its Security Services
I attended the upbeat Fortinet Accelerate 2026 in Las Vegas on Tuesday. As part of the show, the company made two key announcements: FortiOS 8.0 and FortiSOC. Fortinet introduced FortiOS 8.0, which expands the Security Fabric with Secure AI Controls for visibility into shadow AI and AI-aware application controls, Fabric-Based… Read More »Fortinet Accelerate 26 Event Highlights AI Readiness
We attended an analyst meeting held in Fortinet’s headquarters and Executive Briefing Center (EBC) this week. Over ten different executives presented to the small audience about product, marketing and go-to-market activities at the cybersecurity leader. We left with the sense that SASE is the company’s key growth engine and that… Read More »Fortinet Analyst Meeting – Celebrating 25 Years
Deep Observability Market Forecast to Approach $2B by 2029 The last few months of the Observability market have been dominated by Cisco closing its acquisition of Splunk and incorporating Splunk into its broad Cisco networking and security portfolios. In doing so, Cisco is reprioritizing the security and observability components of… Read More »Deep Observability Market Exceeds $200M in 1H24, On Pace to Approach $500M for Full-Year 2024
Fortinet announced plans to acquire Lacework, a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) company. For those who have kept up with the cybersecurity industry news, in April of this year, Lacework was an acquisition target by privately held Wiz. However, that deal, reportedly valued between $150-200M, never materialized. Lacework opens up… Read More »Fortinet’s Planned Acquisition of Lacework Expands its Opportunities Significantly
