Cyber Summit
Cyber Summit
World Technology Forum — Cyber Summit
Google closed the largest pure cybersecurity acquisition in history in March 2026 — $32 billion for a cloud-security startup that had turned down $23 billion two years earlier — while ransomware groups filed 1,138 publicly claimed attacks across the Americas in a single quarter, 58% of them from just five gangs. The Cyber Summit convenes the platform vendors, national defense commands, standards bodies and insurers now pricing, policing and profiting from the world's most persistent unresolved risk.
$255B
Global cybersecurity solutions market, 2025 — heading to $580B by 2031
31
Companies, commands and institutions in the directory
9
Countries represented at headquarters level
$32B
Google's acquisition of Wiz — the largest cybersecurity deal in history
Cybersecurity is one of the few software categories that grows regardless of the macro cycle — because the alternative to spending is a breach, and breaches are getting more expensive every year.
UBS models a narrower ~$240B for 2026 spend alone (+13% YoY), while broader definitions that fold in services and adjacent categories push 2026 past $520B. McKinsey argues that AI could expand the addressable market toward $2 trillion by creating both new attack surfaces and new AI-native defensive tools enterprises will pay for — the same dual-use dynamic playing out across every Summit in this series.
CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks are absorbing point solutions into single platforms as CISOs rationalise stacks that once averaged 45–75 separate tools.
Cyber Command, the NSA, Unit 8200 and NATO CCDCOE operate against an AI-accelerated ransomware and espionage landscape that no longer waits for declared conflict.
Wiz, CyberArk and Okta sit at the centre of the sector's biggest consolidation wave, because credential theft and cloud misconfiguration now start the majority of high-impact breaches.
NIST CSF 2.0, CISA's Cross-Sector Performance Goals and ENISA's national strategy guidance are converging into the compliance stack every CISO now has to run.
Google completed its $32 billion all-cash acquisition of Wiz on March 11, 2026 — the largest acquisition in Alphabet's 27-year history and the biggest pure cybersecurity transaction ever recorded. Wiz, founded in 2020 by four veterans of Microsoft's earlier Adallom acquisition, built a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that scans an organisation's entire multicloud footprint for the "toxic combinations" of misconfigurations that actually lead to breaches — a model that took it from zero to over $1 billion in annualised revenue, with roughly 40% of the Fortune 100 as customers. Wiz turned down a $23 billion offer in 2024, before agreeing to sell at a 39% premium a year later. The deal closed after a 12-month regulatory review covering both Washington and Brussels, and Wiz will continue supporting AWS and Microsoft Azure customers rather than being folded exclusively into Google Cloud — a condition widely seen as necessary to preserve the customer base Google paid for.
Thirty-one platform vendors, defense commands, standards bodies and insurers spanning the industry from firewall to national doctrine. Filter by category, or search by name.
Revenue, valuation and incident figures reflect the most recently reported financials, acquisition terms or credible 2025–2026 industry estimates, compiled from public filings, press releases and trade coverage including Cybersecurity Dive, Research and Markets, Cyble threat-landscape reporting, and company investor communications. National defense and intelligence entries describe publicly acknowledged mandates only. Compiled for Summit convening purposes as of September 2026 and not intended as investment research.
Four threads run through the Cyber Summit programme, each mapped to the institutions in the directory above.
The vendors CISOs actually budget for — endpoint, network, cloud and identity — consolidating fast around a handful of winners.
Military and intelligence commands operating a continuous, undeclared layer of conflict alongside diplomacy and sanctions.
NIST, CISA, ENISA and ISO/IEC turning hard-won incident lessons into the frameworks every regulated sector must now attest to.
The insurers pricing breach risk and the threat-intelligence firms measuring it in real time, in an economy where the attacker's tools now include AI too.