December 20, 2019
F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B
F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion. What the networking company gets with a shiny red ribbon is a security…
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December 17, 2019
Google details its approach to cloud-native security
Over the years, Google’s various whitepapers, detailing how the company solves specific problems at scale, have regularly spawned new startup ecosystems and changed how other enterprises think about…
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Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows
The amount of data that most companies now store — and the places they store it — continues to increase rapidly. With that, the risk of the wrong…
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Accel and Index back Tines, as the cybersecurity startup adds another $11M to its Series A
It was just a couple of months ago that Tines, the cybersecurity automation startup, raised $4.1 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital. The Dublin-based company…
Read articleDecember 10, 2019
Is your startup protected against insider threats?
We’ve talked about securing your startup, the need to understand phishing risks and how not to handle a data breach. But we haven’t yet discussed one of the more…
Read articleDecember 8, 2019
RaySecur, a mailroom security startup, raises $3M in seed funding
Raysecur says at least ten times a day someone sends a suspicious package containing powder, liquid, or some other kind of hazard. The Boston, Mass.-based startup says its…
Read articleDecember 4, 2019
GitGuardian raises $12M to help developers write more secure code and ‘fix’ GitHub leaks
Data breaches that could cause millions of dollars in potential damages have been the bane of the life of many a company. What’s required is a great deal…
Read articleNovember 23, 2019
More than 1 million T-Mobile customers exposed by breach
T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious…
Read articleNovember 16, 2019
‘Magic: The Gathering’ game maker exposed 452,000 players’ account data
The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards…
Read articleNovember 14, 2019
Messaging app Wire confirms $8.2M raise, responds to privacy concerns after moving holding company to the US
Big changes are afoot for Wire, an enterprise-focused end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service that advertises itself as “the most secure collaboration platform”. In February, Wire quietly raised…
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