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ShoCard Raises $1.5 Million For Its Digital Identity Card On The Blockchain
What if you could get rid of your driver’s license? We’re not there yet, but ShoCard just raised $1.5 million from Morado Ventures Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, Enspire Capital and Digital Currency Group to do just that. Security Company CrowdStrike Scores $100M Led By Google Capital
If you need proof that security is a red hot market these days, how about this morning’s announcement that cybersecurity company CrowdStrike landed a $100 million Series C investment round? The round was led by Google Capital with Rackspace, which happens to be one of the company’s customers also investing. Existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus also participated.… Read More
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Splunk Buys Security Startup Caspida For $190M
Splunk announced this evening it had purchase Caspida, a Palo Alto startup that uses machine learning techniques to help identify threats from inside and outside the company, for $190 million, The deal has already closed, the company reported.
Splunk helps companies deal with the onslaught of machine data coming from IT systems using data science techniques and automation to make sense of it. Read More
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Mobile Maker Jolla Splits In Two, With Sailfish OS Its First Order Of Business
Software or hardware? Finnish mobile device and Sailfish OS maker Jolla has always intended doing both. But that could be changing. Today the company announced it’s forking itself, splitting its business into two. One of those businesses will be fully focused on pushing its Sailfish software platform forward. Read More
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Harvard Reveals It Had An IT Breach In June Impacting 8 Colleges And Administrations
A seventeenth-century university has become the victim of a twenty-first-century crime. Harvard University on Wednesday announced that on June 19, it discovered a breach in the IT systems of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Central Administration, currently impacting eight different schools and administrative organizations at the university. A copy of the memo from Anne Margulies, VP… Read More
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YC-Backed Cymmetria Uses Virtual Machines To Decoy And Detect Hackers
YC-backed Cymmetria, which is uncloaking from stealth now after around a year working its cyber security startup business, wants to tilt the traditional security odds so it’s hackers who are left feeling vulnerable and on their guard — by giving the businesses whose systems are under attack a ‘home advantage’. Read More
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Security Firm Sophos Raises $125M In UK IPO, Valuing It At $1.6B
As malicious hacks, data breaches and other forms of cyber crime continue to persist in our networked, Internet-connected world, Sophos, a maker of antivirus software, firewall hardware and other security products for networks, individual users and servers, is going public on the London Stock Exchange.
Trading now as Sophos Group plc and using the “SOPH” ticker, the company… Read More
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HackerOne Bags $25M As Security Info Sharing Mainstreams
HackerOne, makers of a bug bounty platform where companies pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in their products, announced a $25 million Series B round today. The round was led by NEA. Benchmark, its lead Series A investor, also participated along with several prominent individual investors including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Digital Sky Technologies Partner Yuri Milner, Dropbox… Read More
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Post-Quantum Encryption No Longer A Laughing Matter
In these post-Snowden times a lot has changed. Big picture stuff, like politicians legislating to curtail intelligence agency capabilities (or not). And smaller stuff. Like a ‘post-quantum’ encryption startup no longer being laughed out of meetings when they pitch their busine Read More
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Standards Bring Order To Enterprise Software
One thing was clear to me this week as I wandered the halls of the Hilton at Torrey Pines for the Cloud Identity Summit, and it had nothing to do with the famous golf course or the trees for which it’s named. Whatever the subject, enterprise scale brings with it complexity, and one of the ways to counteract that complexity is developing standards. In fact, a persistent theme across… Read More
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