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cybersecurity stocks issues a snapshot looking at how strategic
partners are shaping the future of the sector, featuring Cycurion,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCU), a leader in AI-powered technology and IT solutions.
Two pivotal forces propelling advancements in cybersecurity are
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and strategic partnerships.
According to
SNS Insider, “The Generative AI Cybersecurity Market is accelerating as
organizations deploy AI-driven threat detection and response, with the
U.S. segment growing from USD 2.79 billion in 2025E to USD 28.28
billion by 2033 amid increasing cloud adoption, regulatory pressure,
and advanced attack sophistication.”
Recent news from Cycurion, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCU),iQSTEL Inc. (NASDAQ: IQST) Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), Crowdstrike Holdings Inc.(
NASDAQ: CRWD) and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) demonstrate the importance of strategic partnerships in the
sector.
Headline news from Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), that
“Palo Alto and Google Cloud Forge Landmark Agreement to Help
Customers Securely Accelerate Cloud and AI
Initiatives”
on Friday December 19th show investors that billions of dollars are
flowing into the sector to make this transformative leap.
As enterprises race to harness the transformative power of agentic AI
and cloud computing, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) and Google
Cloud today announced a significant expansion of their strategic
partnership to enable the secure development and deployment of AI
solutions and provide a trusted foundation that helps organizations
harness the full potential of AI with confidence. The collaboration
combines Google Cloud’s leading AI and infrastructure capabilities
with Prisma® AIRS™, Palo Alto Networks comprehensive AI
security platform, to secure the next generation of digital business.
Continued
Palo Alto Networks recent State of Cloud Report,
released in December 2025, found that customers are dramatically
expanding their use of cloud infrastructure to support new AI
applications and services, while also noting that 99% of respondents
experienced at least one attack on their AI infrastructure over the
last year. The agreement announced today aims to tackle these issues
head-on through an enhanced go-to-market strategy and by building
security into every layer of hybrid multicloud infrastructure, every
application development stage and every endpoint, allowing businesses
to innovate with the most advanced AI while protecting their IP and
data in the cloud.
This new phase of the partnership will deliver:
End-to-end AI security from code to cloud: Customers will be able to
protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud — including
on Vertex AI and Agent Engine — with Palo Alto Networks Prisma
AIRS. And by securing key developer tools like the Agent Development
Kit (ADK) with Prisma AIRS, this expanded collaboration ensures a
secure foundation for the next generation of AI applications built on
Google Cloud — including AI Posture Management for visibility,
AI Runtime Security™ for real-time defense, AI Agent Security
for autonomous systems, AI Red Teaming for proactive testing and AI
Model Security for vulnerability scanning.
AI-driven, next-generation software firewall (SWFW): Palo Alto
Networks VM-Series firewalls are designed to secure cloud (public,
private, hybrid) and virtualized environments by providing deep packet
inspection and Threat Prevention in a software form factor. Deep
integrations with Google Cloud will now allow customers to maintain
robust security policies and accelerate Google Cloud adoption.
AI-driven secure access service edge (SASE) platform: Palo Alto
Networks Prisma SASE is a cloud platform that secures access and
networking for remote users, branch offices and mobile devices, along
with deeper integration of security solutions into Google Cloud’s
native AI services. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access runs on Google’s
network, improving the user experience as users access cloud and AI
applications that run on Google Cloud while also leveraging Google
Cloud Interconnect to help customers connect their WAN infrastructure
across multiple clouds/applications and maintain consistent security
policies.
Simplified and unified security experience: The deep alignment between
the two companies ensures that customer solutions are pre-vetted and
engineered to work together, removing the integration challenges and
operational friction that can slow down security teams. This allows
customers to deploy protection faster, simplify compliance and gain a
single, comprehensive view of security across their entire hybrid
multicloud environment.
Smaller players with big ambitions in the sector, Cycurion, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCU) and iQSTEL Inc. (NASDAQ: IQST) formed and announced at “Strategic AI Cybersecurity Alliance
“ in September of this year and have been building to make it
beneficial to shareholders as well.
Complementary Strengths – Powerful Synergies
IQSTEL brings a global business platform in telecommunications,
fintech, AI, and digital services, with established relationships
across 600+ telecom operators worldwide.
Cycurion contributes deep expertise in AI-driven cybersecurity with a
strong foothold in the U.S. and government markets.
Together, the companies will:
Develop and launch a state-of-the-art AI-driven cybersecurity
solution, combining IQSTEL’s AI proprietary technologies with
Cycurion’s cybersecurity expertise.
Cross-sell services, giving IQSTEL the ability to bring
Cycurion’s cybersecurity products to its telecom clients
worldwide, while Cycurion gains access to IQSTEL’s fintech and
AI-driven offerings.
Accelerate product innovation through integrated R&D efforts,
bringing next-gen cybersecurity and AI solutions to market faster.
In late
November they jointly announced:
IQSTEL and Cycurion are currently co-developing advanced cybersecurity
technologies, AI-based threat intelligence applications, and
identity-driven security solutions aimed at telecom operators,
financial institutions, and enterprise clients across more than 20
countries and 17 time zones.
The companies expect to deliver additional partnership updates in Q1
and Q2 2026 as new joint products enter the market.
Emerging as a leader in the cybersecurity industry, on December 16th
Cycurion, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCU)
announced news
of its selection to the 2025 MSSP 250 ranking. The Company now stands
among the world’s top leading managed security services
providers, according to MSSP Alert, a CyberRisk Alliance resource.
Cycurion earned a placement in the top 50%, debuting at No. 116. This
marks the Company’s first year being evaluated for this
prestigious ranking of global cybersecurity leaders.
CrowdStrike and NVIDIA Redefine Cybersecurity with Always-On AI
Agents Protecting the Nation’s Digital Infrastructure:
Earlier this year CrowdStrike .(NASDAQ: CRWD) announced
it is collaborating with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) to bring always-on, continuously learning AI agents for
cybersecurity to the edge through Charlotte AI AgentWorks, NVIDIA
Nemotron open models, NVIDIA NeMo Data Designer synthetic data, NVIDIA
Nemo Agent Toolkit, and NVIDIA NIM microservices.
From the news:
Expanding CrowdStrike and NVIDIA’s work to build, power, and
secure the agentic ecosystem, the latest collaboration will deliver
autonomous, real-time AI agents that learn continuously and defend
critical infrastructure across cloud, data-center, and edge
environments.
“AI is transforming cybersecurity, and defenders need
speed and edge intelligence to outpace the adversary,” said
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “Addressing
AI-driven cyber threats requires AI to protect systems from the speed
and volume of attacks, and we’re working with NVIDIA to deliver
autonomous, AI agents that learn continuously to defend the critical
infrastructure powering the global economy.”
“Cybersecurity in the era of AI demands intelligence that thinks
at the speed of machines,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of
NVIDIA. “Together with CrowdStrike, we’re building
real-time, AI-driven security agents that defend cloud, data center,
and edge infrastructure – protecting the systems that power our
economy and national security.”
Advancing Continuous Learning and Edge Intelligence with Charlotte
AI AgentWorks and NVIDIA
Bringing agents built with Charlotte AI AgentWorks and NVIDIA to the
edge will enable organizations to deploy autonomous, continuously
learning AI agents closer to where data is created – extending
protection to data centers and controlled environments. By training
NVIDIA Nemotron open models with data from CrowdStrike experts using
NVIDIA NeMo Data Designer, customers will be able to fine-tune and
optimize models for their own AI agents, built on CrowdStrike’s
Agentic Security Platform. This joint innovation will enable
enterprises to scale and accelerate security operations with local
inference, continuously improving detection accuracy and real-time
response to threats – helping to maintain control of sensitive
data and align with regional sovereignty requirements.
Unifying Data, Compute, and Governance Across CrowdStrike’s
Agentic Security Platform and NVIDIA Infrastructure
By integrating the Agentic Security Platform – including
Falcon® LogScale, Onum, and Pangea – with NVIDIA accelerated
computing and CUDA-X libraries, CrowdStrike is creating a unified
telemetry pipeline for high-fidelity, real-time security data. This
architecture enables defenders to feed enriched telemetry directly
into locally hosted AI models and agents built and optimized with the
NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, now operating at the edge, allowing systems
to learn safely, reason accurately, and act within enterprise
guardrails.
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