Merritt will make this case at AIxCYBER, hosted by Momentum Cyber on March 12 in Austin, TX. The panel—“The $119 Billion Bet: Why Agentic AI Just Made Cybersecurity the Most Strategic and Valuable Market in Tech”—draws on data from Momentum Cyber’s 2026 Cybersecurity Almanac, which documented $119 billion deployed across 1,222 transactions, with M&A deal value up 270 percent year-over-year.



