The Mandos Brief
The CISO Lens on the Cybersecurity Market
A market brief every Monday. A full analysis every other Friday. What moved in cybersecurity, and what it means for your business.
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Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Founder, Mandos
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CISO Buyer Insights
How enterprise security buyers actually decide: budget cycles and their timing, who signs, how boards get convinced, and what a demo has to survive. Written for founders and enterprise sales leads.
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Market Telemetry
Funding rounds, acquisitions, hiring shifts and category consolidation, pulled from the Mandos record. What moved in the cybersecurity market, and what it means for vendors and investors.
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Positioning & GTM
Homepage copy teardowns, messaging audits and category positioning for cybersecurity vendors. What buyers read, what they skip, and what closes the deal.
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Featured · Market Telemetry
Cybersecurity Company Valuations in 2026 and Why AI Is Repricing the Whole Market at Once
The incumbent selloff and the AI-native funding surge look like opposite trades. They are the same misread of what actually creates durable value in security.
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Market Telemetry
- How CISOs Actually Budget: Why Your Deal Timing Matters More Than Your DemoAnalysis
- Cybersecurity M&A: Who Is Buying Whom, and Why the Consolidation Is AcceleratingAnalysis
- Cybersecurity Website Copy: What CISOs Read, What They Skip, What Closes DealsAnalysis
- Who Really Approves a Security Purchase: The Buying Committee Behind Every CISOAnalysis
- Cybersecurity Funding in 2026: Where the Money Is Going, and What It SignalsAnalysis
- Cybersecurity Sales Deck Review: 12 Mistakes That Lose Enterprise DealsAnalysis
- How to Sell to CISOs in 2026: What Actually Works vs. What Doesn'tAnalysis
- How to Market a Cybersecurity Startup in 2026 (Without Hiring an Agency)Analysis
What arrives, and when
- Every Monday · the Market Brief
- Ten minutes on what moved: positioning shifts, funding, M&A and hiring across 3,399 tracked companies, with what each one changes for a vendor.
- Alternate Fridays · an Analysis
- One long piece: a buying-committee teardown, a pricing model, an RFP breakdown or a category map. Written to be used, not skimmed.
Why this one
Not written by a journalist or a PR agency.
Written by a former enterprise security buyer who evaluated hundreds of vendors, ran the RFPs and consolidated €35M of spend across 24 markets — and backed by the Mandos record: 3,399 companies, 8,749 products and 33,000+ dated moves.
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