Machine Identity Debt

The Invisible Security Crisis Every Cloud-Native Organization Is Already Paying For Part 1 — The Deal That Told You Where This Is Going On July 30, 2025, Palo Alto Networks announced it was buying CyberArk for $25 billion. The deal closed February 11, 2026, becoming one of the largest acquisitions in cybersecurity history. Strip away the ticker symbols and the press-release language about “platform convergence,” and the deal says something simpler: the company that made its name securing privileged human accounts just spent $25 billion because the identity that actually needs securing now isn’