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2026년은 사이버보안과 AI가 만나는 해이며, 크라우드스트라이크 등 사이버보안 종목이 AI 테마의 주요 수혜처로 저평가되어 있다는 주장. 크라우드스트라이크는 올해 40% 상승했지만 여전히 상승 여력이 크고 목표가 700달러 강세 시나리오를 제시. 엔비디아의 그록(GRQ) 라이선스 계약은 추론 시장에서 구글 TPU 대응을 위한 공격적 행보이며 업계 M&A·제휴 확대로 이어질 것으로 봄.
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And a new note today is calling out the best way to play the cyber AI theme. Let's bring in the man behind it, Dan Ies. He's global head of technology research at Wedbush. Dan, it's great to see you. Welcome to be here. Give me, you know, on a zero to 10 your excitement level about Nvidia, Tesla, and then cyber security in kind of ranked order or is it just going to be an uh, you know, rising tide lifts all boats next year?
Why does Crowd Strike in particular jump out to you? Yeah, look I mean to me it's really about this is going to be the year for cyber security meets AI because as all these workloads are moving to the cloud the use cases are building the palunteers the mongos the snowflakes cyber security is going to be front and center now of course it all starts with big tech in terms of Nvidia Microsoft hyperscalers but when I look at crowd strike and I think what Kurts and the team are doing they're at the intersection and I think they probably have some of the best AI footprint when it comes to cyber security investors way under the radar in terms of this name.
Yeah, you I've heard a few others talking about this and in general that AI is dealing with AI is moving into the security space into the software management space. Is is that kind of how you see it? Yeah, I mean look, we've talked about Palo Alto, you look obviously Crowd Strike, Zcaler, but I think the reality is is that this it's all about second, third, fourth derivatives and we talked about that inves 30 and you look where cyber security fits front and center in terms of where we see that playing in terms of where Crowd Strike is, you know, and I think look, this is really going to be about the derivatives playing out across the space.
I mean we see it on authentication you know with with where we are on orbs but I think cyber security it's going to be a golden year for cyber security the stock crowd strike is up 40% this year I mean that's already pricing in a lot and that's that's an incredible that's a really nice run that probably outperforms a lot of the mag 7 probably rivals Nvidia
it I'd say get the popcorn out because I think this is a stock that could have you know ultimately a six in front of it and when I think about you know 700 bull case because right now we're talking about trillions that are going to be spent I mean we're still in the early innings from the use case perspective when you look where crowd strike plays cyber security I mean I think also you're going to see a lot of consolidation in the space I think this as a sub sector cyber security could be one of the best performing of all of tech because of this AI trade
and can you Dan just explain as a non-speist to me you know are you saying that these are companies that because of AI, you know, they need to defend themselves against different types of threats. Are they securing kind of entry points throughout the data stack and and that sort of thing? Just what how do they fit into uh kind of the compute behind AI?
Yeah, if you think about it, okay, so you have the Nvidia chips, you have the hypers scale or build out, you go on a use case an enterprise, how do you protect the work? How do you know the users internally, externally? that's all in the cloud. That's a whole another use case in terms of agents, in terms of threats.
That's where Crowd Strike's going after. That's why it's the it's really intersection of AI and cyber security. And when now as you see more companies go down that path, cyber security, which I'd say to some extent is really been viewed in the background, it's going to be front and center. You're not going to be able to do it without cyber.
And that's where names like CrowdStrike, Powato, Zscaler, names like Checkpoint, you know, I think play out. And I think it's very important in terms of this theme in 26. Yeah. And so, can I pivot and ask you about the news of the day also, Dan, this Nvidia deal, this licensing agreement with Grock GRQ for their language processing units.
They say this could require less compute, be more efficient, maybe fend off or or answer a little bit of what Google's doing with its TPUs. maybe raises some regulatory concerns, although again they seem to be doing so in a way that would perhaps dodge all of that. Um, what's your interpretation of the deal?
I think it's a massive p poker move by Jensen because you look what's happening with Google on the TPU side on the inference and this is really Nvidia. Look, this is them flexing their muscles because they're going further and further expanding out making sure competitively but also on the offensive because you go in 2026, this is going to be a huge pain point.
It's one of the best technologies out there and I think it look this just speaks to what we're going to see more and more consolidation more and more acquisitions more and more deals that we see in this arms race that's going on and look the godfather of AI Jensen is not just going to sit there watch us from the stands it's going to be on the field and that's this is a smart move at the right
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