{"id":227848,"date":"2026-06-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/cybersecurity-ma-roundup-vendors-continue-focus-on-acquisition-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:10:13","slug":"cybersecurity-ma-roundup-vendors-continue-focus-on-acquisition-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/cybersecurity-ma-roundup-vendors-continue-focus-on-acquisition-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: Vendors Continue Focus on Acquisition of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: Vendors Continue Focus on Acquisition of AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news-features\/cybersecurity-ma-roundup-june-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-08 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. May 2026 maintained strong momentum for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the year as cybersecurity vendors continued the purchase of other companies to help enhance their offerings.<\/p>\n

The key trend of the first half of 2026 continued, with several acquisitions focused around bringing expertise on AI agents and agentic security in-house.<\/p>\n

Vendors completing or announcing deals included Infoblox, Akami and SecurityScorecard.<\/p>\n

Here is\u00a0Infosecurity\u2019s\u00a0cybersecurity M&A roundup for May 2026.<\/p>\n

Infoblox Completes\u202fAcquisition of Axur<\/p>\n

Infoblox, the cloud networking and security company, completed its acquisition of Axur, a provider of AI-powered\u202fexternal threat discovery and digital risk protection tools.<\/p>\n

The acquisition, announced on May 5, is designed to expand the preemptive security capabilities of Infoblox by monitoring digital\u202fthreats\u202fand risks\u202facross the external attack surface\u202fthat\u202fare\u202foutside customers\u2019\u202fdirect control.<\/p>\n

As part of the acquisition, Axur will aid Infoblox to launch\u202fDigital Risk Protection\u202fServices\u202f(DRPS), turn\u202fexternal threat intelligence into immediate action and establish\u202fthe foundation for Continuous Threat Exposure Management\u202fwithin an expanded Infoblox Exposure Management platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cAxur\u202fbrings highly complementary data sources and expertise that meaningfully expand\u202four intelligence portfolio. Together, we can connect external signals with DNS-level insight to give customers clearer visibility and more confidence in how they respond,\u201d said Dr. Ren\u00e9e Burton,\u202fVP of\u202fthreat\u202fintelligence, Infoblox.<\/p>\n

SecurityScorecard Acquires Driftnet<\/p>\n

SecurityScorecard, the threat-informed third-party risk management (TPRM) service provider, completed the completed acquisition of threat intelligence firm Driftnet.<\/p>\n

Announced on May 14, the acquisition combines the DriftNet high-fidelity internet discovery engine with SecurityScorecard\u2019s TITAN AI platform.<\/p>\n

The pairing is set to provide SOC and threat hunting teams with the real-time intelligence they need to find and fix third-party risks before attackers do at a time when AI is helping to uncover vulnerabilities \u2013 and attackers are trying to exploit them as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat landscape has fundamentally changed. AI agentic automation and connected supply chain tools have exploded across enterprise environments,\u201d said Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO and co-founder of SecurityScorecard.<\/p>\n

\u201cDriftnet\u2019s proprietary scanning gives our customers real-time, high-fidelity intelligence to find these exposures across the entire third-party ecosystem, before they become breaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Akamai Announces Intent to Acquire LayerX <\/p>\n

Akamai Technologies, the cybersecurity and cloud computing company, announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire LayerX, the provider of browser-based AI usage control and secure enterprise browser (SEB) technology.<\/p>\n

The acquisition of LayerX will extend Akamai\u2019s protection into the browser, where today\u2019s workforce interacts with generative AI applications, SaaS AI solutions\u00a0and AI agents. The move is designed to combine with Akami\u2019s existing Zero Trust security portfolio and address security concerns around AI usage in the enterprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers are adopting AI at record speed, and they\u2019re telling us the same thing: Their existing controls cannot see how employees are interacting with AI tools and sharing with large language models,\u201d said Mani Sundaram, executive vice president and general manager of the security technology group at Akamai.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe acquisition of LayerX helps close that gap, providing Akamai with a control layer that governs AI at the point of use so enterprises can move at AI speed without compromising safety and compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the agreement, Akamai has agreed to acquire all the outstanding equity of LayerX for approximately $205m and the deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

Agentic AI Security Specialist Torq to Acquire AI Workflow Platform Jit<\/p>\n

On May 18, Torq, the agentic security operations company announced that it had acquired Jit, the AI context graph cybersecurity firm.<\/p>\n

The acquisition will enable agentic investigations by the Torq AI SOC Platform to be improved with organization-specific contextual data.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s announcement is more than an acquisition\u2014it\u2019s a defining moment for Torq and the future of security operations,\u201d said Ofer Smadari, CEO and co-founder, Torq.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy uniting Jit\u2019s groundbreaking AI Context Graphs and Agentic technologies with the Torq AI SOC Platform, we\u2019re creating the ultimate proactive cybersecurity defensive offering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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