$96B cybersecurity M&A wave
Analysts say roughly $96 billion of consolidation has reshaped cybersecurity over the last 18 months, citing major deals like Google’s acquisition of Wiz and broader platformization moves — a market dynamic that increases demand for integrated cloud+security skills. The wave is driving valuations toward unified, cross‑platform security stacks. (tech-insider.org)
Momentum Cyber’s 2025 almanac recorded roughly $102 billion in disclosed cybersecurity M&A value across about 398 transactions during the year. (momentumcyber.com) SecurityWeek’s M&A tracker logged 426 cybersecurity deals in 2025 and reported total disclosed deal value above $84 billion, with eight transactions topping $1 billion. (securityweek.com) Enterprise software consolidators drove several headline megadeals, including ServiceNow’s announced $7.75 billion cash agreement to buy Armis on Dec. 23, 2025, with the deal expected to close in 2026. (newsroom.servicenow.com) Industry trackers noted that a small handful of mega‑transactions accounted for the lion’s share of value, with analyst summaries suggesting the top ten deals represented roughly 90% of total disclosed M&A value in early 2025. (csoonline.com) Momentum Cyber and S&P Global analysis show strategic buyers focused acquisitions on cloud security, identity and SecOps capabilities as part of a platformization strategy and continued multi‑cloud support. (momentumcyber.com) CyberSeek’s June 2025 update, echoed by a NIST summary, found employers posted 514,359 cybersecurity job listings over the prior 12 months—an increase of about 57,000 listings, or roughly 12%—signaling rising demand for cloud‑security talent. (cyberseek.org) Local pay benchmarks show Cloud Security Engineer total pay in Los Angeles estimated around $174,000 (average base roughly $133,000) on Glassdoor, a Built In median base for Security Engineers at $144,341 in Los Angeles, and a ZipRecruiter average cybersecurity engineer salary about $132,415. (glassdoor.ie)
