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Morgan Stanley identified five top cybersecurity stocks after attending the RSA Conference 2026: Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, SailPoint and SentinelOne. The firm believes these companies are well-positioned to benefit from growing AI security demand as businesses deploy AI agents. Microsoft has 1.6 million security customers and a $20 billion revenue run rate, with analyst Keith Weiss setting a $650 price target, implying 80% upside. Analyst Meta Marshall gave Palo Alto Networks a $223 target (50% upside), noting its broad AI portfolio and advantageous position despite a 20% year-to-date decline. CrowdStrike received a $510 target (38% upside) and was upgraded to a top pick based on its strong endpoint franchise and AI-driven security capabilities.

Eon and SentinelOne announce partnership to advance cloud data security and AI resilience. Combined capabilities will extend AI security with integrated data resilience, ransomware recovery, and protection for AI-driven infrastructure. Eon, an intelligent cloud infrastructure for data backups and AI provider, and SentinelOne, an AI security player, announced a partnership to help enterprise security teams protect, detect, and recover from threats across the full cloud data and AI attack surface.Organizations accelerating AI adoption face a compounding challenge: AI workloads depend on massive volumes of sensitive data, operate across complex cloud infrastructure, and run continuously at machine speed. Each stage of the AI lifecycle - from data, to infrastructure, and runtime - introduces new attack paths and failure modes that fragmented, legacy tools cannot address. The partnership between SentinelOne and Eon will focus on integrating the Singularity Platform's end-to-end AI security with Eon's cloud-native data resilience solution to protect the entire lifecycle of AI workloads. By combining SentinelOne's DSPM discovery and classification with Eon's Data Protection product and Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) solution, including an industry-first ransomware protection for databases, organizations can ensure sensitive data is not only identified but also backed up and compliant. Eon's autonomous CBPM continuously classifies cloud resources and auto-applies backup policies. Built for high performance on top of object storage, Eon's open-format storage layer enables continuous anomaly detection and allows for granular restores to ensure clean data recovery. This unified approach will surface prioritized alerts for non-recoverable datastores, allowing security teams to bridge the gap between data sensitivity and operational resilience before high-risk data ever enters an AI pipeline. To defend vs. sophisticated threats, Eon's indexed storage metadata enables ransomware heuristics, such as entropy analysis, file extension change detection, behavioral anomaly monitoring, and snapshot locking in logically air-gapped vaults. Combined with SentinelOne's detection and response capabilities, as well as Purple AI's automated investigations, this synergy enables early detection of reconnaissance within model weights and training sets, providing a "shift-left" defense for the data layer and a deterministic recovery path through searchable backups and granular file-level restoration in the event of an attack. Furthermore, the collaboration extends to securing AI agents and autonomous infrastructure, monitoring these high-impact operational identities in real time to contain prompt manipulation or privilege escalation while ensuring the data layer remains immutable and recoverable. "AI has fundamentally changed the security equation. It's not just about protecting systems, but ensuring the data behind them is continuously protected, accessible, and recoverable," said Ofir Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder, Eon. "SentinelOne has built one of the most advanced AI-driven security platforms, and together we're extending that intelligence into the data layer. We're enabling a new model of security - one where organizations can not only detect and respond to threats, but fully recover and continue operating without disruption." "AI security requires protecting data, infrastructure, and runtime as one connected system," said Rob Salvagno, Chief Corporate Development Officer, SentinelOne. "Eon adds the data resilience layer that makes this vision complete. The investment reflects conviction that data recoverability is foundational to AI security. Together, the companies deliver protection and recovery across the full AI lifecycle." As part of the deal, SentinelOne has also invested in Eon through its investment branch, S Ventures. The investment underscores SentinelOne's belief that the next era of AI security will be defined by the ability to make data not just protected, but usable - and that Eon is the only platform purpose-built to deliver that capability at scale. Read also: New Eon integration with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft OneLake eliminates costly data duplication, turning database backups into live, queryable assets for AI and analytics Best-in-class, AI-native data pipeline platform will build on SentinelOne's AI advantage by turbo charging ingestion, enriching telemetry, and automatically adapting to evolving threat Secure entire organization with the industry's fastest AI-powered open platform for all data and workflows - built on SentinelOne Singularity Data Lake

SentinelOne elevates interim CFO Barry Padgett to president, chief operating officer. SentinelOne, a company specializing in artificial intelligence security, has promoted Barry Padgett to president and chief operating officer. The appointment takes effect immediately and coincides with the transition of Sonalee Parekh into the chief financial officer role, the Mountain View, California-based company said Tuesday. What will Barry Padgett do in his expanded role? Padgett's expanded leadership role will involve overseeing corporate strategy and operational execution across market-facing functions. The appointment follows his tenure as chief growth officer and interim chief financial officer. Tomer Weingarten, co-founder and CEO of SentinelOne, said Padgett is a proven operator at scale who can align teams, advance cross-functional initiatives and strengthen coordination across key operations. "This expanded role will build on Barry's impact and leadership to strengthen our operating and innovation advantage, driving SentinelOne's next chapter of growth," Weingarten said. What experience does Padgett bring? With more than 25 years of experience, Padgett has driven expansion and operational scale at multiple technology firms. His previous roles include president and CEO of Amperity, chief revenue officer at Stripe and president of SAP. He spent two decades at Concur, holding multiple leadership roles, including chief product and strategy officer. SentinelOne expands leadership team. As part of its broader leadership changes, SentinelOne recently appointed Jillian Swenson as vice president of federal sales. She will lead federal sales efforts, focusing on revenue growth and strengthening relationships with key government agencies. In October 2025, Ely Kahn was promoted to chief product officer, overseeing all product lines across the company.