TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. He was previously chief information security officer at a SaaS company and a public financial institution. Oren Yunger. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC.

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DECEMBER 8, 2024

ADIB-Egypt has announced plans to invest 1 billion EGP in technological infrastructure and digital transformation by 2025. This ambitious initiative is poised to position ADIB-Egypt at the forefront of the digital banking revolution, transforming how customers interact with their financial services.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

As enterprises scale their digital transformation journeys, they face the dual challenge of managing vast, complex datasets while maintaining agility and security. Data masking for enhanced security and privacy Data masking has emerged as a critical pillar of modern data management strategies, addressing privacy and compliance concerns.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

It is currently partnered with Indonesia’s seven largest banks, covering more than 90% of the country’s bank accounts, and plans to expand into all Southeast Asia countries. For example, Bank Indonesia published open banking API standards in 2020. A diagram showing Brick’s financial API offerings.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

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? If theres a security threat and potential exposure, you have to go through the testing process as quickly as you can, Prouty says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that helps organizations secure their data using AI and machine learning, has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ). In an S-1 filing on Thursday , the security company revealed that for the three months ending April 30, its revenues increased by 108% year-on-year to $37.4

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CIO

MAY 5, 2025

CIO.com The CIO role is expanding significantly in terms of helping the organization understand not just AI strategy, but AI as business strategy, says Vikram Nafde, executive vice president and CIO at Webster Bank. They are also leading the charge educating the board and making sure everyone understands what this all means.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Plus, OWASP is offering guidance about deepfakes and AI security. Those are three security measures cyber teams should proactively take in response to an ongoing and “large scale” email spear-phishing campaign targeting victims with malicious RDP files , according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Umba , a digital bank for emerging markets and aiming first at Africa, has secured a $2 million seed funding round from new investors including Lachy Groom, ex-Head of Issuing at Stripe; Ludlow Ventures; Frontline Ventures and Act Venture. Umba competes with Kudao, Carbon, Eversend and “Chip or cash” methods.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Plus, Europol offers best practices for banks to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography. Meanwhile, an informal Tenable poll looks at cloud security challenges. government is urging software makers to adopt secure application-development practices that help prevent buffer overflow attacks. This week, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Meet Bastion , a French startup that was created in October 2022 to help small companies tackle cybersecurity risks without too many complexities. What makes Bastion different from other cybersecurity startups is that it wants to be your first and last cybersecurity subscription. co-founder and CEO Arnaud Fournier told me.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

In modern business, cybersecurity is not merely a technical concern but a crucial financial safeguard. With cyber threats growing in sophistication and frequency, the financial implications of neglecting cybersecurity training are severe and multifaceted. The average cost of a data breach ballooned to $4.88

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The onset of the pandemic has led to increased demand for digital banking options across customer income groups around the world. We’ve seen how digital banks like Zolve and Nubank have raised money in recent months to fill this need. TymeBank , a South African digital bank, announced today that it has secured an R1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

BNY and Silicon Valley Bank are also participating in today’s funding round. Instead, it sells its products to banks, fintech startups and other financial institutions. Fireblocks lets them do that securely. In many ways, Fireblocks reminds me of banking-as-a-service companies, except that Fireblocks focuses on crypto assets.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

In a world where digital threats loom large, cybersecurity leadership has become paramount. Recognizing the crucial role of cybersecurity leaders in safeguarding the nation’s digital infrastructure, the first edition of the CSO30 Awards recently took place in Dubai, showcasing the cream of the crop in the field.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Oi Yee Choo, chief commercial officer of digital securities platform iSTOX. iSTOX , a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Having matured as a business, Ononobi and his team want to take on a more complicated task: building infrastructure for companies that want to offer akin services. “We We want to build an infrastructure for rewards, loyalty, deals, buy now, pay later, cashback,” he said to TechCrunch on a call. ThankUCash cofounders.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From smartphones and wearables to IoT devices and cloud infrastructure, the breadth and complexity of our digital ecosystem continues to expand at an unprecedented rate. This necessitates continuous adaptation and innovation across various verticals, from data management and cybersecurity to software development and user experience design.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. Its clear that the technology firms must understand how this technology will impact if it is to deliver on the promise of a secure and trustworthy AI.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Once synonymous with a simple plastic credit card to a company at the forefront of digital payments, we’ve consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation while respecting tradition and our relationships with our merchants, banks, and customers.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2025

We are at a critical juncture where we must address escalating cybersecurity threats, bridge the widening tech talent gap, and ensure digital inclusion for all New Zealanders. Escalating cybersecurity risks were top of the priority list. Establishing clear policies for data use and enhancing data security.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2023, the United Arab Emirates actively repelled more than 50.000 cyberattacks daily, explained the UAE Cybersecurity Council. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, the GCC cybersecurity industry continues to grow, with F&S estimating it to triple in value by 2030 to reach 13.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. The new company is akin to Amplify in terms of infrastructural play; however, it provides financial features instead of payment ones.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Check out the new cloud security requirements for federal agencies. 1 - CISA issues cloud security mandate for federal agencies To boost its cloud security, the U.S. Its foundation is CISAs Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project, which offers recommendations for hardening the configuration of cloud services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. From a product architecture standpoint, Productfy has been built “from the ground up,” he said, to operate with multiple banking partners. Productfy Inc. ,

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Other leading sectors included autonomous driving, healthcare, robotics, professional services, security and military, Crunchbase data shows. Of those AI dollars, almost a third of all AI funding went to foundation model companies. Related reading OpenAI Raises $6.6B

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The rise of the cloud continues Global enterprise spend on cloud infrastructure and storage products for cloud deployments grew nearly 40% year-over-year in Q1 of 2024 to $33 billion, according to IDC estimates. As a result, the customer experience has vastly improved once Vibram began accepting all payment methods with main currencies. “We

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, CIOs must still demonstrate measurable outcomes and communicate these imperatives to senior leadership to secure investment. According to Salesforces Perez, even though AI brings much opportunity, it also introduces complexity for CIOs, including security, governance, and compliance considerations.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2025

For domain-centric solutions such as in the banking or energy sector, SLM is the way to go for agility, cost-effective resources, rapid prototype and development, security, and privacy of organizational data, Kasthuri says. Microsofts Phi, and Googles Gemma SLMs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. MAX’s commercial bank partners now extend vehicle purchase loans to drivers, using data provided by the mobility company in credit risk assessment.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Among them: Banking: Organizations are delivering personalized solutions with recommendations and enhancing customer service operations with avatar-assisted services and Natural Language Processing (NPL) chatbots that fulfill service requests promptly.

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Tenable

MARCH 7, 2025

Check out best practices for shoring up data security and reducing cyber risk. And get the latest on cyber scams; zero-day vulnerabilities; and critical infrastructure security. 1 - CSA: How to boost data security and reduce cyber risk Risk assessment gaps. Siloed cyber tools. Misaligned priorities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The instant payment platform lets merchants make, manage and receive secure payments by connecting directly from the payer’s bank to a merchant’s bank. . NPP’s PayTo is a new digital tool for merchants and businesses to initiate real-time payments from customer bank accounts. .

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

However, as ecommerce has proliferated, security threats have increased, elevating cybersecurity to a board-level concern. Early cybersecurity threats were limited in their scope and damage, but current threats can ruin a business. For critical infrastructure, regulatory requirements and standards have also evolved accordingly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

This news follows the $4 million Stitch raised out of stealth in February 2021, a prequel to the $2 million extension round it secured four months ago, bringing its seed round to $6 million. The first is what it launched from stealth: the pure infrastructural play of connecting financial and bank accounts with an API.

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