{"id":218783,"date":"2026-02-27T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/the-cybersecurity-market-is-not-consolidating-it-is-rewiring-itself\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:55:25","slug":"the-cybersecurity-market-is-not-consolidating-it-is-rewiring-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/the-cybersecurity-market-is-not-consolidating-it-is-rewiring-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The cybersecurity market is not consolidating. It is rewiring itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cybersecurity market is not consolidating. It is rewiring itself<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/cybersecurity-market-not-consolidating-rewiring-220111211.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-27 17:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: ca.finance.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The cybersecurity industry defies long\u2011standing predictions of consolidation. PHOTO GETTY IMAGES <\/p>\n

For more than two decades, the cybersecurity industry has been accompanied by a familiar refrain.\u00a0There are too many vendors;\u00a0too many tools;\u00a0too much fragmentation.\u00a0Eventually, the thinking goes, consolidation will clean it all up. Platforms will absorb point solutions, competition will thin\u00a0out\u00a0and order will return.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard\u00a0Stiennon\u00a0has been hearing that story for\u00a025\u00a0years. He still does not believe it. As the founder of IT Harvest and one of the longest tenured analysts in cybersecurity,\u00a0Stiennon\u00a0tracks\u00a0roughly four\u00a0thousand security vendors and their products globally. From that vantage point, the idea that the industry is\u00a0consolidating\u00a0in any traditional sense is not\u00a0just wrong. It misses what is happening beneath the surface.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stiennon\u00a0did not arrive in cybersecurity through a conventional analyst pipeline. He began his career in automotive engineering, moved into the early internet era by launching an ISP, and watched that company get\u00a0acquired\u00a0during the first wave of digital infrastructure\u00a0buildout. That experience led him into security focused companies and eventually to Gartner, where he became one of the earliest analysts dedicated to covering cybersecurity as a standalone domain.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That chapter shaped his thinking. Traditional analyst models, he\u00a0observed, tend to focus on the top tier of vendors in any category. Useful, but incomplete. The real market dynamics live in the long tail, where innovation forms long before it becomes obvious.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IT Harvest began as a spreadsheet tracking a few hundred vendors. Over\u00a0time,\u00a0it grew into a dataset of thousands. In 2022,\u00a0Stiennon\u00a0launched a dashboard to make that data searchable and usable at scale. The arrival of large language models only accelerated\u00a0its\u00a0value, making it possible to map not just vendors but products,\u00a0categories\u00a0and relationships across…<\/span><\/p>\n

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