Crunchbase News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Just two years ago venture funding to cybersecurity was on fire , with more than $23 billion flooding the sector. In 2023, cyber startups saw only about a third of that, as venture funding dipped to its lowest total since 2018. Security companies raised $8.2 billion in 941 deals in 2022.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

CISA is calling on router makers to improve security, because attackers like Volt Typhoon compromise routers to breach critical infrastructure systems. And a cyber expert calls on universities to beef up security instruction in computer science programs. Meanwhile, data breaches hit an all-time high in the U.S. So said the U.S.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Hackers often talk about practicing good “cybersecurity hygiene” : making sure that basic standards, such as using unique passwords for each log-in, are met. This breadth of information can be much more valuable on the black market—sometimes up to $30 per record—than the typical consumer financial profile , which sells for $10 to $12.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek shook the automotive industry in 2015 by remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee driven by Wired reporter , and willing participant, Andy Greenberg. Perhaps it’s not surprising then that automotive cyberattacks have grown in frequency — up more than 225% in 2021 , compared to 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

406 Ventures, and Matt Caulfield, founder and CEO of Oort, with a conversation around cybersecurity companies in Boston. Caulfield started Oort in 2018, and to date, has raised $18.05 To them, the area’s rich history in deep tech explains why high-tech startups, from biotech to cybersecurity companies, find success in the region.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This latest investment gives us the resources we need to continue to be the leading force in the crowdsourced security market.” Just last week, Austin, Texas-based NinjaOne , which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised a $231.5 Security companies raised $8.2 billion valuation.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 26, 2024

Our new guide, The Healthcare CISO’s Guide to Cybersecurity Transformation , highlights the latest trends in healthcare today and where security leaders should focus their defensive efforts going forward. According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), large breaches increased by 93% between 2018 and 2022.

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Sailpoint

JULY 11, 2019

Walsh announced Greg McCarthy’s appointment as the city’s first chief information security officer (CISO). McCarthy will lead the cybersecurity team within the Department of Innovation and Technology. The city’s cybersecurity program is now ten years old, and I have been a part of it for nine.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Elisity , a self-styled innovator that provides behavior-based enterprise cybersecurity, has raised $26 million in Series A funding. Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture. ” Founded in 2018, Elisity — whose competitors include the likes of Vectra AI and Lastline — closed a $7.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Netskope , focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 million round at the end of 2018. We are fortunate to be in that situation, and our destination is to be the most impactful cybersecurity company in the world.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2024

Every couple of years, industrial cybersecurity makes a comeback with investors — and it looks like it’s that time again now. The San Francisco-based company offers industrial security — also called operational technology (OT) security — and IoT security platforms. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity company says the capital will be used to expand its product offering, double its headcount to 80 employees and grow its partnership program with managed service providers. million since its founding in 2018. Security co-founder and angel investor Jon Oberheide. million Series A financing round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Proving that there’s still plenty of venture money in cybersecurity, cloud identity security platform Britive today announced that it raised $20.5 But there are drawbacks, too — one being security (potentially). Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M million in a Series B funding round.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Clichéd as the concept of a perfect storm is, the term feels like an appropriate way to describe the cybersecurity challenges U.S. READ MORE ON ELECTION SECURITY. How experts plan to secure the 2020 election. Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech. Experts disagree on how to secure absentee votes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. Prior to founding the startup in 2018, Simkin’s worked for the Department of Justice as part of its national security division. Corsha, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Lacework

MARCH 8, 2024

Women’s representation in cybersecurity has come a long way in the last decade, but we still have progress to make before the balance truly shifts. That’s exactly why Lacework launched Secured by Women last year; and now, we’re thrilled to be back to continue championing the incredible women making a difference in cybersecurity.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

government-sponsored Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force delivered more than 100 recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security to make medical technology more resistant to hackers. READ MORE FROM ‘NO PANACEA FOR MEDICAL CYBERSECURITY’. Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 19, 2018

READ MORE ON MEDICAL CYBERSECURITY. Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues How to recover from a health care data breach To prevent EHR breaches, stop using them (Q&A) Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline How weak IoT gadgets can sicken a hospital’s network Opinion: Who foots the bill for medical IoT security?

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Tenable

MARCH 1, 2024

Check out what’s new in NIST’s makeover of its Cybersecurity Framework. Also, how to assess the cybersecurity capabilities of a generative AI LLM. 1 - NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 1 - NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 The Cybersecurity Framework at 10.and And the most prevalent malware in Q4. And much more!

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Planbox

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Planbox becomes compliant with the highest international information security standards. With these certifications, customers can be assured that Planbox has implemented the necessary systems and processes for the ongoing protection of their information.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months. Shaked worked for some time at Magic Leap.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Cybersecurity is among the most critical aspects of building an online business and it goes without saying it needs to have an expert to make sure everything is in place. As per Accenture data security breaches have surged by 11% since 2018. Interview Questions To Ask Cybersecurity Candidates.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

” As a bootstrapped startup, Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which was founded in 2018, has already amassed 1 million users for the extension, which is one reason why it was able to raise so much so early on. “We want to give advice and help to our users. We believe in positive friction.” So much was getting through.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. GitGuardian estimates that app security engineers on average have to handle over 3,400 secrets occurrences.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2018, the day after his employer publicly announced it was being acquired, Lynn Lovelady, then VP of IT at Energen, received a pivotal phone call that would reshape his career. These are strategic capabilities for IT, and we have more purchasing power when we address them horizontally across our portfolio,” says Lovelady.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt , which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 25, 2022

Fortunately, the strong bipartisan consensus on cybersecurity threats has led to bipartisan interest in cybersecurity legislation. With the 2022 legislative calendar now in full swing, we see cybersecurity policy activity coalescing around several worthwhile pillars of activity. You can’t secure what you can’t see.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Cisco announced over the weekend that it intends to acquire Valtix , a startup that helps companies secure their environments across multiple clouds. Valtix launched in 2020.

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Lacework

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

New from Lacework Cybersecurity in the News…Again…And Again A roundup of three major cybersecurity breaches. This is becoming common, and not just for people who live the world of cybersecurity. Secure Your AWS Cloud with Lacework Webcast replay that explains […]

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Tines , a no-code automation platform co-founded by two senior cybersecurity operators, today announced that it has raised a $26 million Series B funding round led by Addition. As such, it combines security orchestration and robotic process automation with a low-code/no-code user interface. million, Tines is now valued at $300 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

cybersecurity official Chris Krebs and former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos have founded a new cybersecurity consultancy firm, which already has its first client: SolarWinds. Krebs was one of the most senior cybersecurity officials in the U.S. He also consulted for Zoom amid a spate of security problems.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The latest of which is the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) while updates to the Cybersecurity Act and the Data Act are likely to follow soon (relatively) afterwards. According to this paper, globally 145 countries have data privacy laws, up from 132 in 2018. Cloud Computing, Data and Information Security

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As long as cybersecurity is viewed as a pain, it’ll never be integrated into the fabric of an organization. Fortunately, there have been significant advances in cloud-based security services that enable new ways to embed cybersecurity into enterprise services people want. Answer: no one likes […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. Security veteran Window Snyder thinks there is a better way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

PlexTrac , a Boise, ID-based security service that aims to provide a unified workflow automation platform for red and blue teams, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by Noro-Moseley Partners and Madrona Venture Group. PlexTrac CEO and President Dan DeCloss.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For many global policymakers, the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to adopt new cybersecurity and privacy policies. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic downturn represent new challenges for government security leaders. Brazil data security and Latin America regional influence.

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