Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

In fact, it took $200 million or more to make the list last month, as defense tech and cybersecurity led the way. NinjaOne , $500M, cybersecurity: NinjaOne, which provides endpoint management, security and monitoring, raised $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation more than doubling its value from just 12 months ago.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Companies (and VCs ) spend billions of dollars on cybersecurity, but primarily focus on protecting infrastructure or endpoints. According to one 2021 survey, 61% of security leaders in the enterprise believed their cybersecurity teams to be understaffed. ” Kumar founded Fortanix alongside Anand Kashyap in 2016.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This necessitates continuous adaptation and innovation across various verticals, from data management and cybersecurity to software development and user experience design. Let’s talk about strengthening the four major pillars from an attacker’s perspective, as they form the core of any organization’s security.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Verkada , a developer of security systems for the real world, locked up a $200 million Series E led by General Catalyst that values the San Mateo, California-based firm at $4.5 Founded in 2016, Verkada says it has raised more than $700 million in funding. Today, more than 1.5 Today, more than 1.5

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Queries to AiNET, however, did not elicit any response.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Schwarz Group , an EU-based retail company, announced today that it has acquired Israeli security startup XM Cyber for $700 million. XM helps customers simulate what an attack could look like to expose flaws and openings in a company’s security posture with the goal of shutting down vulnerabilities before an actual cyberattack happens.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab , a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer cybersecurity, published research in December demonstrating how 28 home wireless routers fail to use even basic security techniques. D-Link takes the issues of network security and user privacy very seriously.”. Slide courtesy CITL.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] This concept of least-privilege access is fundamental to Zero Trust Security practices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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The Parallax

APRIL 4, 2018

Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that ransomware attacks cost organizations $5 billion in 2017 —damages experts say are almost completely avoidable. The Atlanta hackers, who infected city computers and networks with a variant of the SamSam ransomware , have demanded $51,000 worth of bitcoin in exchange for unlocking the files.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. This brings Transcelestial’s total raised since it was founded in 2016 to $24 million. Investor In-Q-Tel was part of a previously disclosed round.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Should chief information security officers at companies hit by ad fraud take a stronger role in stopping it? In a 2016 analysis, Hewlett Packard Enterprise identified it as the most lucrative form of cybercrime. The range of companies affected by ad fraud is vast and deep, and it affects every business vertical across the globe.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And while some research indicates that connected technology might solve urban traffic woes—imagine networks of autonomous vehicles , outfitted with sensors that interact with traffic lights —it wouldn’t take much effort in the nearer future, some theorize, for a car network hack to grind urban traffic to a halt. billion by 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Cybersecurity platform Expel , which specializes in threat detection and response, today announced that it has raised a $140.3 Expel lands $50M Series D as security operations increase in importance. With this, the company has now raised a total of $257.9 million and its valuation is now north of $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, Microsoft confirmed the acquisition but not the purchase price, saying that it plans to use Fungible’s tech and team to deliver “multiple DPU solutions, network innovation and hardware systems advancements.” ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Kristian Ranta founded the San Mateo, California-based company in 2016 after his brother, Peter, committed suicide. And today, the startup is announcing that it has secured $38 million in a Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised since its 2016 inception to $51.3 The remaining $8 million was secured in debt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

million in 2016. And that’s what the Zimbabwean government sought to accomplish when it introduced a financial inclusion scheme from 2016 to 2020. Verification is done on-chain through Algorand, which bills itself as a solution to the blockchain trilemma of security, scalability and decentralization. million in 2020.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 2, 2022

The State of Cybersecurity. Combating the issue, companies have increased hiring cybersecurity professionals. unemployment rate recently reached a low of 5.4%, the cybersecurity knowledge gap remains high. unemployment rate recently reached a low of 5.4%, the cybersecurity knowledge gap remains high. Though the U.S.

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The Parallax

JUNE 13, 2018

It was the largest-ever recorded DDoS attack—until five days later, when Arbor Networks detected a 1.7Tbps attack targeting a U.S. Of course, not all DDoS attacks (or mitigation methods) are the same, cautions Marc Rogers, chief security officer at security startup ScaleFT. corporation.

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CIO

AUGUST 11, 2023

Partnering closely with AT&T Cybersecurity, Bhullar and his IT team deployed a mix of advanced security, open-source software, and the AWS cloud to build its venerated Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) platform, a project that consists of more than two dozen individual systems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Roy Dagan, company CEO and co-founder says that he sees organizations with many different connected devices running on a network and it’s difficult to manage. “We enable organizations to manage IoT devices securely at scale in a consolidated and cost efficient manner,” Dagan told me.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million. Today it was FireEye’s turn, snagging Respond Software , a company that helps customers investigate and understand security incidents, while reducing the need for highly trained (and scarce) security analysts.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 2, 2018

Verizon, ostensibly aiming to better protect its customers’ data on mobile devices when using Wi-Fi while turning a gentle profit, is now offering a virtual private network. That’s not surprising, says Travis Biehn, technical strategist and research lead at cybersecurity company Synopsys. per month, after a 30-day free trial.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

That’s the advice of Arkadiy Tetelman, the head of application and infrastructure security at online bank Chime , who presented on what political campaigns can learn from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation at the B-Sides San Francisco conference here Sunday. .

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2024

Due to be adopted as law by member states by October 2024, the EU Network and Information Systems (NIS2) Directive is the most important cybersecurity legislation ever enacted across member states. At that time, cybersecurity was seen primarily as a problem faced by individual organizations. This is hugely ambitious.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The European Union (EU) adopted the revised Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) in November 2022. It is especially important in a time of growing geopolitical tensions and cyberattacks where European citizens and their economies depend on a stable and secure digital infrastructure. Expanded Scope.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The funding news comes just two months after Honor revealed it had acquired global home care provider Home Instead in a move that greatly expands its senior care network. In 2016, the startup shifted its model so that the people providing the care were actual employees, and not just contractors, with benefits.

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The Parallax

MAY 18, 2018

—Google is prepping the Android world for its next upgrade, code-named Android P, with an array of security and privacy enhancements. But even locking down a long-criticized Android privacy flaw won’t help the operating system beat its biggest security flaw: its own success. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Palo Alto Networks welcomes the European Commission’s release on 16 December of a set of proposals related to cybersecurity, including a new cybersecurity strategy and a proposal for revision of the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems ( NIS 2 ).

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Kiteworks , $456M, cybersecurity: Investors seem to be digging cybersecurity yet again. A week after Abnormal Security closed a $250 million Series D that valued the startup at $5.1 Founded in 2016, this is the company’s first disclosed funding amount, per Crunchbase. The round was led by Elevage Medical Technologies.

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The Parallax

MARCH 16, 2018

CANCÚN, Mexico—Look no further than the spread of WannaCry, prompted by a leak last year of a Windows vulnerability the NSA had kept under wraps , for evidence of the importance of addressing and publicly disclosing computer and network vulnerabilities. Security experts have criticized U.S. The MSS did not return requests for comment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

About five months after raising $15 million, PassiveLogic , which provides a platform to autonomously control building systems, has secured an additional $15 million in an “off-round” strategic investment from Nvidia’s venture arm, nVentures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Security and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Crowdfunding guidelines were adopted under Title III of the JOBS Act back in 2016, but because many entrepreneurs were unfamiliar with how to participate, many of the startups that have taken advantage of it haven’t been the highest quality.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Yet, after collectively investing an estimated $219B 1 worldwide in cybersecurity, only four in 10 organizational leaders feel confident that security is embedded in their technology and applications according to the Dell Technologies Innovation Index. Why is validated Zero Trust so secure? Why the DoD’s Zero Trust strategy?

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Palo Alto Networks

JULY 26, 2021

Just five years ago, cybersecurity experts were warning that the threat from cyber extortion was poised to grow as criminals increasingly looked to profit from the use of ransomware. In 2016, the majority of ransoms paid were $500 or less. In 2016, the majority of ransoms paid were $500 or less. No, it’s not a movie plot.

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The Parallax

JULY 3, 2019

UPDATED with a revised list of secure messaging apps. This story was originally published on April 29, 2016. A few months ago, my parents asked a great security question: How could they securely send their passport numbers to a travel agent? READ MORE ON TRAVEL AND SECURITY. They knew email wasn’t safe on its own.

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