The Parallax

JANUARY 16, 2020

Could the secret to building Internet-connected devices that balance utility, safety, security, and privacy reside in the offices of Forcite, an upstart motorcycle helmet maker in Australia? READ MORE ON SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS. If someone asks, ‘What information do you have on us?’ Have a Tesla Model 3?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses — and VCs. While a decline from the previous year, venture capital funding in the cybersecurity sector totaled $18.5 PitchBook data shows a decline in cybersecurity valuations at the seed and Series A stages in particular.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

In one case, this oversight led to a fragmented IT landscape and security vulnerabilities.” The CIO is really worried about cybersecurity and the risk of data exfiltration,” says Fernandes. Imagine you’re a client technologist of the athletics department, and you’re looking for financial information for athletics,” he says.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Such a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) could deliver a devastating impact to global cybersecurity protocols. To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

As TechCrunch reported earlier today , Carta is suing its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on December 23, according to the company. Current and former Carta employees can reach out to Natasha Mascarenhas on Signal, a secure encrypted messaging app, at 925 271 0912.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Generative AI reminds me of ball bearings: the technology is relatively inexpensive, highly adaptable and a proven way to reduce friction. Investors have taken notice: CB Insights reports that VCs poured $49 billion into AI last year, a 40% jump from the year before. What’s wrong with the way they are currently solving this problem?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

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 reports it has now raised $290 million. 12 top cybersecurity VCs discuss investing, valuations and no-go zones.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Still, other CIOs are the top choice for getting more information about AI, followed by analyst reports, IT vendors, conferences, and IT media. A huge part of the problem is that generative AI is so new that little expertise exists, says Seth Blank, CTO at Valimail, an email authentication provider.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Security weaknesses arise Security and risk vulnerabilities are important signs that modernization is immediately necessary. He notes that recent surveys by Gartner and Forrester show that over 50% of organizations cite security and efficiency as their main reasons for modernizing their legacy systems and data applications.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. Their report focused exclusively on financial cybercrime, including identity theft.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Given that threat actors exploit critical vulnerabilities within mere hours of publication, this poses a serious security risk for companies.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Protecting these ever-increasing volumes of data is a high priority, and while there are many different types of cybersecurity threats to enterprise data, ransomware dominates the field. Claus Torp Jensen , formerly CTO and Head of Architecture at CVS Health and Aetna, agreed that ransomware is a top concern. “At

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Then in December, it secured $400 million in credit facilities from Goldman Sachs and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). A company spokesperson told me via email: “Program admins will be able to ask Ava for reporting across the travel and spend programs, whether that is via text, graph, PDF, etc. billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5

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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. Worldwide responses show that attackers are increasingly able to extract more sensitive data.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

According to Salt Labs, the research division of Salt Security (which sells API cybersecurity products, granted), API attacks from March 2021 to March 2022 increased nearly 681%. Bansal saw the writing on the wall four years ago, he said, when he cofounded San Francisco-based Traceable with CTO Sanjay Nagaraj.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With these paid versions, our data remains secure within our own tenant, he says. The tools are used to extract information from large documents, to help create presentations, and to summarize lengthy reports and compared documents to find discrepancies. And about 70% of the code thats recommended by Copilot we actually adopt.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

According to a Gartner’s report , about 75% of compliance leaders say they still lack the confidence to effectively run and report on program outcomes despite the added scrutiny on data privacy and protection and newly added regulations over the last several years. Image Credits: anecdotes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The breach of FireEye and SolarWinds by hackers working on behalf of Russian intelligence is “the nightmare scenario that has worried cybersecurity experts for years,” reports Zack Whittaker. CoinMarketCap reports that crypto market values have reached almost $659 billion; that figure was just $140 billion in March 2020.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SnapAttack , a threat hunting startup that was this week spun out from IT consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton , has secured $8 million in Series A funding. This, in turn, helps organizations proactively identify potential security flaws, risks and gaps in their infrastructure before an incident occurs, the company says.

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JUNE 8, 2021

News broke this morning that Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners are purchasing Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop. Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit. Securities and Exchange Commission last week announcing its intent to become a public company. Walter Thompson.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to a new IDC report , 98% of business leaders view AI as a priority for their organization and the research firm expects AI to add $20 trillion to the global economy through 2030. These technologies can produce more content that everyone needs to consume and be aware of,” says Anita Woolley, professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

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JULY 11, 2022

Emerging cybersecurity initiatives generate lots of buzz but aren’t likely to shift the focus of IT and business leaders away from fundamental issues such as cost and best-of-breed solutions. The survey by Comcast Business and CIO included 146 respondents, more than 60% of them in C-level roles (CIO, CISO/CSO, CTO, or COO).

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MAY 20, 2024

Tech services provider Logicalis found in its 2024 Global CIO Report that 89% of CIOs reported “actively seeking opportunities to incorporate AI capabilities into their companies,” making it the No. And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. Other surveys offer similar findings.

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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. Criminal organizations using ransomware are only going after targets that lack in the basics” of security hygiene, Graham says. ”—Robert Graham, CEO, Errata Security.

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JULY 20, 2022

As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Cloud security is one of the big drivers among enterprises making IT investments this year, according to a recent report from Gartner , which estimated that some $4.4 ” Gavish saw this problem first-hand: he worked on privacy and security at Google Cloud prior to founding DoControl. trillion in IT spend overall in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Most recently they were COO and CTO, respectively, at Automated Insights, which was acquired by Vista Equity Partners. One of their customers, Reuben Doetsch, co-founder and CTO of AvantStay, started using Wrangle for bug reports and future requests. This is the third company where they have worked together.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We reported last week on Skyflow , which raised a round to use polymorphic encryption to ensure that employees only have access to the data they need and are blocked from accessing the rest. Coe explained that Tonic is designed to prevent some of the most obvious security flaws that arise in modern software engineering.

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JULY 2, 2022

Some creators, especially those from marginalized communities, face targeted harassment on Instagram, which sometimes means that bad actors will mass-report their account for no reason, causing them to get banned or suspended. Cybersecurity 101: How to protect your online security and digital privacy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey , 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices. The widespread microservices adoption has spawned new problems in app development, however. million in VC money to date.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

LAS VEGAS—”The blockchain is not going to solve all our problems,” Parisa Tabriz, Google’s head of security for the Chrome browser and leader of the Project Zero security vulnerability-hunting team , told an audience of more than 6,000 to kick off the Black Hat conference here. They need to work better together. “We

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Regions like Denver and Chicago “are crushing their 2020 venture capital tallies, results that were at times already at or near record highs,” report Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm in today’s edition of The Exchange. On a good day, most people forget the chief information security officer even exists.

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