Momentum Cyber was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal, examining cybersecurity’s record-setting pace of dealmaking in 2026, driven by an accelerating race for AI security capabilities. The piece cited Momentum Cyber’s finding that the sector recorded 219 M&A transactions in H1 2026, putting the market on track to surpass 2025’s full-year total of 400 deals, with Founder & CEO Eric McAlpine noting the firm is advising on triple the deal volume it was handling at the start of the year.
The article highlighted how AI security has emerged as the fastest-developing category Momentum Cyber has tracked, jumping from 10 deals in all of 2025 to 29 in the first half of 2026 alone — what McAlpine called the first time a brand-new category has moved from financing into M&A within a single year. The piece also noted that tech and cybersecurity acquirers accounted for 88% of disclosed H1 spend, an unusually strategic-heavy market, and closed with McAlpine’s outlook for the year ahead: “This is the year of the land grab.”
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