Thursday, June 1 2023

Cybersecurity Insights for Financial Risk Leaders

Bridge the divide between risk management and cybersecurity with no-nonsense cybersecurity insights in one digestible newsletter. Spend more time running your company and less time deciphering your technical team’s security jargon. Our articles take less than five minutes to read and will help you communicate better with CISOs, CIOs, and other security leaders.

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Private Capital

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Cyber Deals: Cloudburst, HUB Security, and Soucepass

Julia Bischoff

Cybersecurity venture funding activity and mergers and acquisitions: This week’s most sizable deals included AI powered security service providers and computing platforms. Funding Threat […]

Cyber Deals: Opscura, Acceldata, and Sensiguard Acquisition

Austin Boland-Ferguson

Cybersecurity venture funding activity and mergers and acquisitions: This week’s most sizable deals included emergency and healthcare security service providers. Funding Industrial control system […]

Cyber Deals: Drata, Field Effect investments, and Veracode acquisition

Julia Bischoff

Cybersecurity venture funding and merger activity: This week’s largest deals were MDR and security automation investments, as MSP consolidation continues to attract corporate buyers. […]

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People Moves

Cyber Executive Moves: Vimeo, IntelePeer, National Cybersecurity Center, and More

Julia Bischoff

Former Tesla CISO joins Vimeo, NCC welcomes new board members, and Greenway Health hires new CISO. Video sharing platform Vimeo welcomes Mark Carter as their […]

Cyber Executive Moves: Netizen, Kroll, Coalfire

Julia Bischoff

Netizen hires Joe Carr as director of cybersecurity, and Krebs Stamos Group names new chief information security officer. Netizen, a veteran-owned cybersecurity solutions provider, named […]

Cyber Executive Moves: Appgate, Trellix, Rubrik

Julia Bischoff

Appgate appoints a new CEO, Trellix hires loanDepot’s CISO, SANS Institute taps new CISO director. Secure access solutions provider Appgate appointed Leo Taddeo as chief […]

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Data & Privacy

How will SEC’s Cybersecurity rules affect funds?

Khushi Arora

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed new cybersecurity regulations for investment funds and third-party service providers. The agency advocated that any “significant […]

Regulatory Spotlight: Avoiding the jab-hook combo

Jeremy Seth Davis

When regulators squabble, who loses? Everyone. Regulatory disharmony is real, folks—and so far, we don’t see signs of the trend waning. We recently examined the […]

Third-Party Cloud Service Misuse Exposes Over 100M Users’ Data

Khushi Arora

A recent report highlights app developers’ misconfiguration and poor implementation of third party cloud services, which may have exposed sensitive data of over 100 million […]

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Cloudburst Technologies Raises $3 million in Seed Funding

Julia Bischoff

Cloudburst Technologies, a monitoring and threat intelligence provider, announced that they raised $3 million in their seed investment round. Investments were led by Strategic Cyber Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Bloccelerate. Cloudburst Technologies specifically provides tools aimed at tracking and combating fraud in the cryptocurrency market. Investigators can do so without relying on […]

Two people collaborating over a computer by Desola Lanre-Ologun

Cyber Deals: Cloudburst, HUB Security, and Soucepass

Julia Bischoff

Cybersecurity venture funding activity and mergers and acquisitions: This week’s most sizable deals included AI powered security service providers and computing platforms. Funding Threat solutions provider for cryptocurrency Cloudburst Technologies raised $3 million in the seed funding round led by Strategic Cyber Ventures in order to help build on their current technology. HUB Security, a […]

Cyber Executive Moves: Vimeo, IntelePeer, National Cybersecurity Center, and More

Julia Bischoff

Former Tesla CISO joins Vimeo, NCC welcomes new board members, and Greenway Health hires new CISO. Video sharing platform Vimeo welcomes Mark Carter as their first chief information security officer. Carter has a variety of experience in the industry including serving as chief information security officer at Tesla.    Greenway Health, a health services software […]

NetBox Labs Raises $20 Million in Series A To Drive Open Source Transformation of Networking Industry

SecureDisruptions

NetBox Labs, an open source network management and automation startup, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Flybridge Capital is leading the investment with participation from GGV Capital, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Mango Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, IBM, the Founder Collective, and Entrée Capital. As part of the round, […]

Fivecast Completes $20M Series A Raise With New US and Existing Australian Venture Investors

SecureDisruptions

US-based cybersecurity venture capital firm Ten Eleven leads funding, joining existing backers in CSIRO’s Main Sequence and South Australian Venture Capital Fund Australian open-source intelligence software company, Fivecast, has closed its Series A funding round with almost $20 million (AU$30m) raised to fuel its expansion and service contracts in key markets, including Five Eyes nations, […]

Push Security Raises $15M and Launches New Visibility and Employee-Powered Tools to Help Enterprises Scale SaaS Security

SecureDisruptions

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Push Security, a SaaS security company, has raised $15M in Series A funding. GV (Google Ventures) led the funding with participation from Decibel and notable angels, including Dug Song, co-founder and former CEO at Duo Security, and Tray.io co-founder and CEO Rich Waldron. GV General Partner Karim Faris and Jon Oberheide, co-founder and former […]