TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. What’s wrong with the way they are currently solving this problem?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Artificial intelligence has moved from the research laboratory to the forefront of user interactions over the past two years. From fostering an over-reliance on hallucinations produced by knowledge-poor bots, to enabling new cybersecurity threats, AI can create significant problems if not implemented carefully and effectively.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Columbus, Ohio-based Finite State, a startup that provides supply chain security for connected devices and critical infrastructure, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. . The funding lands amid increased focus on the less-secure elements in an organizations’ supply chain, such as Internet of Things devices and embedded systems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Gem Security , a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a cloud threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) platform, is coming out of stealth today and announced an $11 million seed funding round led by Team8. The company was co-founded by CEO Arie Zilberstein, CTO Ron Konigsberg and VP of Product Ofir Brukner.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. And a Red Hat survey of IT managers in several European countries and the UAE found that 71% reported a shortage of AI skills, making it the most significant skill gap today, ahead of cybersecurity, cloud, and Agile.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the round. Jeff Bezos ’ Bezos Expeditions , Fidelity Management & Research Co. Keller, one of the most acclaimed engineers in the semiconductor industry, joined the company in 2021 as president and chief technology officer, and was named CEO in early 2023.

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CIO

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. During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ghost Security , which its founders describe as an “app security” company, today emerged from stealth with $15 million in combined funding from 468 Capital, DNX Ventures, and Munich Re Ventures at a $50 million valuation. “Existing approaches and application security solutions are now dated and losing effectiveness.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

So Greenwald, Shoshan and Sarid, the former CTO of MuleSoft, founded Otterize , which aims to allow developers to securely connect different software services to each other and infrastructure by automatically configuring existing security controls. Otterize today raised $11.5 ” Otterize raises $11.5M

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

The reasons include higher than expected costs, but also performance and latency issues; security, data privacy, and compliance concerns; and regional digital sovereignty regulations that affect where data can be located, transported, and processed. Judes Research Hospital St. Adding vaults is needed to secure secrets.

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CIO

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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CIO

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. AI has moved out of the IT function and is being pushed out more widely in the organization,” says Ian Beston, director at Coleman Parkes Research.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Plus, according to a recent survey of 2,500 senior leaders of global enterprises conducted by Google Cloud and National Research Group, 34% say theyre already seeing ROI for individual productivity gen AI use cases, and 33% expect to see ROI within the next year. Ive not met many professors who dont feel overworked and exhausted, he says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Jit , a startup that helps developers automate product security by codifying their security plans and workflows as code that can then be managed in a code repository like GitHub, today announced that it has raised a $38.5 “Creating a security plan or program is too time-consuming for high-velocity dev and product teams. .

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

Here are 10 questions CIOs, researchers, and advisers say are worth asking and answering about your organizations AI strategies. Whats our risk tolerance, and what safeguards are necessary to ensure safe, secure, ethical use of AI? As part of that, theyre asking tough questions about their plans.

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

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security. Key Research Findings OSS accounts for almost 70% of all software used in a typical Asia/Pacific enterprise to drive digital innovation.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Talk may be cheap, but when it comes to IT security, strategic conversations with colleagues, business partners, and other relevant parties can be priceless. Such discussions ensure the integration of cybersecurity initiatives and resource requirements in the enterprise’s business goals and objectives,” he adds.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

It’s a rosy picture, but recent events of security vulnerability indicate that the decentralized world might not be working as well as the believers envision yet. That’s why entrepreneurs, infused with venture capital, are racing to make crypto applications more secure.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This could result in a greater challenge for cybersecurity professionals in defending against and mitigating the effects of such attacks. As a result, many organizations will prioritize strategies that ensure swift and secure recovery, such as immutable backups, advanced recovery planning and redundant systems designed to minimize downtime.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Small and medium businesses have become a growing target for malicious online hackers in recent years, currently accounting for between 43% and 61% of all security breaches and some $7 billion annually in related losses, according to different estimates. The startup is launching initially in the U.S.,

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity The February ransomware attack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit reinforced cybersecurity as a pressing concern for executives across the country, and the continuing fallout that includes a federal investigation keeping the issue in the spotlight. Foundry / CIO.com 3. Risk management came in at No.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 5, 2022

Legit Security today revealed that it discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in GitHub repositories that has since been remediated. Liav Caspi, Legit Security CTO, said the company worked with GitHub to remediate the issue prior to disclosure.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2023

And with his dual titles at the company—CIO and CTO—Rex Lee is in the driver’s seat to support digital transformation and implement shared knowledge across teams and management. On cybersecurity: Cybersecurity is a business issue, a business imperative. It’s actually to help the business in a secure way.

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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. 2020 was a disaster, but the pandemic put security in the spotlight. Stage Light on Black. Image Credits: Fotograzia / Getty Images.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

MIT Center for Information Systems Research The MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR) operates as a research center in Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We work directly with technology leaders, executives, and boards to develop our research insights.”

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. There needs to be an ROI associated with each innovative endeavor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

And, of course, this is a super coarse representation of how good a model really is,” Pavol Bielik, the company’s CTO explained. Tsankov’s last startup, DeepCode , was acquired by cybersecurity firm Snyk in 2020. ” Image Credits: LatticeFlow. Clearly, though, this is a founding team with the right background.

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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. In their research, they saw Slack direct messages and channels get busy as people dealt with up to 100 requests per week with little way to audit/track where people were in the process.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Seek equal seating and set shared objectives Collaboration between IT and business leaders is important, but it can be difficult for IT leaders to get a seat at the business strategy table, says Ola Chowning, a partner at technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The UnaBiz representative said it has closed down SigFox’s loss-making entities and brought in new executives, including a chief customer officer to focus on pipeline and revenue streams, a chief operating officer to oversee operations stability and cost optimization and a chief technology officer.

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