Data security startup Cyera has agreed to acquire Oasis Security, a specialist in non-human identity security, for $1 billion. The deal aims to combine Cyera's data security capabilities with Oasis's platform for non-human identity and access governance. Cyera, founded in 2021, raised $600 million in June, reaching a $12 billion valuation. Oasis, launched in 2022, secured $120 million in Series B funding in March, bringing total funding to $195 million. The combined platform will provide visibility into sensitive data and insights about which humans, machines, and AI agents can access it. Oasis has distinguished itself through its approach to non-human identity visibility and AI governance. According to Oasis president Michael DeCesare, the company drives most deals through the channel and plans to continue its partner focus.

Cyera in advanced negotiations to acquire Oasis Security for over $1 billion. Fresh off a $600 million funding round, the Israeli cybersecurity unicorn is accelerating its acquisition strategy. 21:17, 06.07.26 Cybersecurity unicorn Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Oasis Security. Negotiations are in advanced stages, and the acquisition is expected to be valued at over $1 billion. To date, Cyera has raised approximately $2.3 billion. Cyera was founded in 2021 by Yotam Segev, the company's CEO, and Tamar Bar-Ilan, its CTO. Both are graduates of Israel's Talpiot program and veterans of Unit 8200. Oasis Security has raised approximately $195 million since its founding in 2022, including a $120 million Series B led by Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cyberstarts, Sequoia Capital, and Accel, in March of this year. The company, founded by Danny Brickman and Amit Zimerman, develops what it calls "agentic access management," a framework designed for a computing environment where machine identities vastly outnumber human users. Cyera's recent $600 million funding round is expected to help finance the acquisition, alongside supporting the continued expansion of its AI-powered cybersecurity platform. Although Cyera is privately held and does not disclose its financial results, the company is estimated to generate more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The rapid growth in demand for AI security solutions has fueled its expansion, with Cyera reportedly tripling its ARR for three consecutive years. Over the past 18 months, the company has grown to more than 1,500 employees across 18 countries. Cyera has gone on an acquisition spree in recent months. In May, it acquired Israeli startup Genie Security for an estimated $50 million. Just a month earlier, Cyera purchased Israeli startup Ryft, another young company founded in 2024 with only 15 employees, acquired for an estimated $100 million. Combined with earlier acquisitions, including Trail Security for $162 million, as well as Otterize and Shape AI, Cyera has rapidly expanded its operations. Cyera's customers include Paramount, Chipotle, Valvoline, Hollister, and DocuSign, among others.

Oasis Security announces integration with Zscaler to extend Zero Trust to non-human and agentic identities. Oasis Security announced an integration with Zscaler, Inc., the cybersecurity platform for the AI era. The integration extends the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform with Oasis' lifecycle governance for non-human identities and AI agents, from discovery to decommissioning, delivering stronger and unified identity security for joint customers. A new identity problem at enterprise scale. Most enterprise traffic is now machine-to-machine. Until now, zero trust principles assumed an authenticated identity behind every connection. That assumption holds for human users but falls apart as non-human identities (NHIs) like service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, IAM roles, and secrets proliferate across the enterprise. NHIs already represent the vast majority of identities in most organizations, yet most operate without ownership, lifecycle management, or audit oversight. Compounding the challenge, AI agents and MCP servers are appearing on managed endpoints with hardcoded secrets and broad standing access, often without security teams' knowledge. One control plane for every identity. The Oasis integration with Zscaler gives joint customers a single control plane for every identity that touches the enterprise, from Active Directory to AI agents. * Zscaler inspects, brokers, and enforces zero trust connections across every user, device, workload, and application. * Oasis adds the identity context that has historically been missing for machine and agentic traffic: who created it, what it can access, whether it's still owned, and how it should be rotated or revoked. With the integration, joint customers can: * Discover NHIs across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises systems, plus AI agents and MCP servers identified by Zscaler * Attribute every identity to an owner and score its risk * Govern the full lifecycle by rotating secrets, scoping access, or decommissioning identities * Enforce zero trust policy inline across every connection The result: no more reconciling stale credentials and orphaned accounts across a fragmented toolset. Availability The Oasis Security integration with Zscaler is available today. David Marshall has been involved in the technology industry for over 30 years, and he's been working with virtualization software since 1999. He became a pioneer in the virtualization and cloud computing field - one of the few people in the industry allowed to work with Alpha stage server virtualization software from industry leaders: VMware (ESX Server), Connectix and Microsoft (Virtual Server).Through the years, he has invented, marketed and helped launch a number of successful software companies and products. David holds a BS degree in Finance, an Information Technology Certification, and a number of vendor certifications. He's also co-authored two published books: "VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center" and "Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Data Center" and was the technical editor for two popular Virtualization "For Dummies" books. With his remaining spare time, David founded and operates one of the oldest independent modern data center publications, VMblog.com. And co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication dedicated to Cloud Computing. Since 2009, and each year thereafter, David has been honored with the vExpert distinction by VMware by Broadcom for his evangelism.Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/