Cybersecurity
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Nikesh Arora Made Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity’s Consolidator. Now He Has to Make the Stack Work as One
Nikesh Arora turned Palo Alto Networks into cybersecurity’s leading consolidator. CyberArk and Chronosphere now make integration—not another acquisition—the defining test of his platform strategy.
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Check Point Is Getting a Founder’s Urgency Back
A FigureAsia examination of how Nadav Zafrir is positioning Check Point for the next phase of cybersecurity.
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Bom Kim Built Coupang Around Reliability. A Data Breach Has Made Trust the Hardest Delivery
Coupang transformed Korean shopping through speed and dependable logistics. Bom Kim must now rebuild confidence after a breach exposed the limits of operational excellence without digital trust.
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Nikesh Arora Is Automating the Internet's Certificate Reset. Forty-Seven Days Will Expose the Gaps
Nikesh Arora is pushing Palo Alto Networks into cryptographic operations as certificate renewals accelerate and governments prepare for quantum-resistant standards. The opportunity sits inside every digital service; the risk is that failed automation can stop those services at the same scale.
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Thomas Kurian Closed Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal. Now He Must Preserve the Multi-Cloud Trust Google Bought
Google Cloud has completed its acquisition of Wiz, giving Thomas Kurian a rare chance to make security the connective tissue of a fast-growing cloud business. The return will depend on keeping customers’ rival-cloud estates visible and trusted.
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Jay Chaudhry Bought Red Canary to Move Zscaler Into Security Operations. Integration Must Justify the Margin Cost
Zscaler’s annual recurring revenue is growing 25 per cent with help from Red Canary. Jay Chaudhry now has to prove that acquiring a people-intensive security service strengthens the platform rather than complicating its economics.
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Nadav Zafrir Bought Four Pieces of an AI Security Stack. Check Point Must Turn Them Into Growth
Check Point has accelerated acquisitions under Nadav Zafrir to close gaps around AI and cloud security. The test is whether one operating platform emerges quickly enough to improve product growth without sacrificing margins or repurchase discipline.
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Assaf Rappaport Is Turning Wiz’s Security Graph Into an Agent Control Layer. Automation Must Remain Reversible
Wiz can give AI assistants live context from its cloud-security graph. Assaf Rappaport’s opportunity is to make security teams faster; his risk is allowing an agent to convert a mistaken finding into a damaging production change.