Cybersecurity Stocks Today: Okta Rallies on Jefferies Upgrade as Palo Alto Warns on AI Cloud Attacks and Fortinet Targets NVIDIA “AI Factory” Security (Dec. 16, 2025)
NEW YORK — Dec. 16, 2025 (early afternoon ET) — Cybersecurity stocks are showing relative resilience Tuesday even as the broader U.S. market tilts lower on a mix of delayed economic data, sector rotations, and renewed sensitivity to rates. By around 2:00 p.m. ET, Reuters reported the Dow down ~0.63%, the S&P 500 down ~0.42%, and the Nasdaq off ~0.06%, as investors digested a delayed jobs report and reassessed the Federal Reserve outlook for 2026. Reuters Against that backdrop, cybersecurity names are trading on a familiar set of late-2025 themes: AI expanding the attack surface, identity security moving to the top of budgets, and vendor consolidation/platformization shaping both fundamentals and