Taxonomy revision
August 2026: consolidation, no repositioning
Four acquisitions and five entrants. The index reaches 55 vendors, and not one of the moves puts a vendor in the tool-call execution path.
Ward Spangenberg · Founder and CEO, Behavry Inc.
August 2026 · Revision of the blind spot taxonomy · Index now 55 vendors
What changed#
The quarter's consolidation confirms the map: Cisco closed its ~$400M acquisition of Astrix, Cyera acquired Oasis Security (~$1B), Anaconda acquired Enkrypt AI, and Snowflake moved for MCP-gateway maker Natoma. Five entrants join the index, Natoma, Tenet Security, Rubrik Agent Identity, Menlo Security, and Mimecast, bringing it to 55 vendors. Every one of these moves deepens an existing pattern: identity planes, gateways, and monitors changing owners. None of them moved a vendor into the tool-call execution path.
CITE THIS
Spangenberg, W. (2026). Taxonomy revision, August 2026: consolidation without repositioning. Behavry Inc. https://behavry.ai/taxonomy-august-2026
This note records one revision. The full analysis, including every pattern and the company index, is at behavry.ai/taxonomy, where each pattern has its own address. Corrections are welcome: a vendor that believes its architecture is placed wrongly should say so.
REVISIONS/AUG 2026 this revision/SEP 2026 →
- THE FULL TAXONOMY
56 vendors, ten patterns, and the structural blind spot nine of them share.
- RESEARCH
The Unattested Agent, and what the published vendor record still does not cover.
- THE FOURTH A
Authentication, authorization and accounting stop at the boundary. Agents act past it.
The map is revised quarterly. The blind spot is not.
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