I note the chain's most bottleneck-shaped position is agent identity—if autonomous agents act on a company's behalf, something must control what they're allowed to do—and the strategic conviction is enormous: Palo Alto Networks closed its ~$25 billion acquisition of CyberArk in February 2026, the largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, explicitly framed around 'human, machine, and agentic' identity.

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