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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

TechCrunch

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. Security teams get app security flows that they can review and audit for compliance. So why launch Descope now?

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

New cyber operations in key sectors Historically, Chinese cyber espionage groups have predominantly targeted organizations from the government, technology, and telecommunications sectors and that continued in 2024. They complicate attribution due to the often short-lived nature of the IP addresses of the nodes being used.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

In addition, CrowdStrike hired two independent software security vendors to review the Falcon sensor code, its quality control, and release processes, and also changed how its updates are released: more gradually, to increasing rings of deployment, says Adam Meyers, CrowdStrikes SVP for counter adversary operations. Trust, but verify.

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7 signs you may not be a transformational CIO

CIO

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

CIO

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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Accelerate AWS Well-Architected reviews with Generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As systems scale, conducting thorough AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) becomes even more crucial, offering deeper insights and strategic value to help organizations optimize their growing cloud environments. This time efficiency translates to significant cost savings and optimized resource allocation in the review process.

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Web3Auth secures $13M from Sequoia India to simplify crypto onboarding and authentication

TechCrunch

The current state of crypto onboarding is unwieldy and unnecessarily prolonged due to the seed phrase, a series of words created by the crypto wallet to regain access. The lengthy passwords that users are asked to store in a safe place can be a significant barrier to entry for non-technical users who are used to simple “forgot password?”