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Grip Security raises $6M to improve SaaS security

TechCrunch

Many large enterprises now rely on hundreds of third-party SaaS applications to do business, but their security organizations can barely keep pace. Right now, the state of the art for SaaS enterprise security are cloud access security brokers (CASBs) that act as intermediaries between users and the actual service.

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RedHat is acquiring container security company StackRox

TechCrunch

RedHat today announced that it’s acquiring container security startup StackRox. StackRox’s acquisition is part of some consolidation we have been seeing in the Kubernetes space in general and the security space more specifically. Another competitor, Aqua Security, which has raised $130 million, remains independent.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. It is highly likely that these investments have led to greater operational security (OPSEC) and specialization in China-linked intrusion operations, the researchers noted.

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Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

Last week, Microsoft’s Windows 7, once the go-to operating system of nearly 60 percent of all computers , reached the company’s designated end of the road for security patches. Like Windows XP before in 2014 , if you have a Windows 7 computer, it’s long past time for you to shell out some cash for a new one.

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Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M

TechCrunch

Dropbox announced today that it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million The company helps customers share and track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment. It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment.

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SecurityScorecard snags $180M Series E to measure a company’s security risk

TechCrunch

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. The company changed that by starting a system of scoring the security posture of different companies and giving them a letter grade of A-F just like at school.

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Stoked — Manifesting Innovation in Shared Threat Intelligence

Palo Alto Networks

From Blasé to Bad Ass I was recently turned on to a TED talk that legendary skateboarder Rodney Mullen gave back in 2014. Rodney shares more insights on his comparison: “They connect disparate information, and they bring it together in a way that a security analyst doesn't expect. It’s pretty rad.