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Ex-Plaid employees raise $30M for Stytch, an API-first passwordless authentication platform

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One such company, Stytch , just raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding as it launches out of beta with its API-first passwordless authentication platform. The company was founded on the premise that passwords are no longer secure, and make companies easy targets for hackers and expose them to account takeover risk.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. What if theres an urgent security fix? Clancy asks. Trust, but verify.

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

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A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A The technology is too novel and evolving,” he says. “As

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Corsha lands $12M to bring MFA security to machine-to-machine API traffic

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based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. Typically, if an application or service wants to make an API call, it leverages a primary authentication factor like a PKI certificate or a JSON web token.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Generative AI for proptech, cloud vendor shopping, cybersecurity fairy tales

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Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie Image Credits: A. Martin UW Photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images The Defender’s Dilemma is one of cybersecurity’s touchstones: “Defenders have to be right every time. ” It may sound authentic, but David J. .”

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Nudge Security emerges from stealth to tackle cybersecurity’s people problem

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Now, cybersecurity startup Nudge Security is emerging from stealth to help organizations tackle what they think is the biggest cybersecurity weakness: people. We also provide supply chain information,” added Blasco, Nudge’s co-founder and chief technology officer.

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Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services

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Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a different tech stack. But one factor in Otterize’s favor is the heightened spending on cybersecurity, particularly in the enterprise.

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