AI Hires Humans to Solve Captcha, Amazing Drones, & Buzzword Bingo 2023 Edition – ESW #310
This week in the Enterprise News: Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud. We take the mystery out of some recent funding. Microsoft 365's Copilot tries to do your job for you. Mapping failures with decision trees. An AI hires a human to solve a CAPCHA, because it needed help, and lies to the human about the reason why. You know what's different between AI and you? Those goosebumps on your arms right now and the ice water in your veins. AI can't do that. New drone designs that change everything & Cyber Startup Buzzword Bingo: 2023 Edition.
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- 1. FUNDING: Cybersecurity Startup Aembit Launches With $16.6M in Total Funding to Bring Identity-First Security to Workloads
- 2. FUNDING: Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud
Dope.
- 3. FUNDING: Cybersecurity startup Mitiga adds $13 million to Series A for cloud incident response services
- 4. FUNDING: Oleria raises $8M to make multi-factor authentication adaptive
- 5. FUNDING: Grip Security Receives Investment from The Syndicate Group
- 6. FUNDING: Capital One Ventures and Citi Ventures Invest in Securiti
- 7. FUNDING: Secuvy Announces New Investments from Dell Technologies Capital and WestWave Capital to Modernize Data Privacy and Security
Undisclosed seed, led by Dell Technologies Capital
- 8. ACQUISITIONS: CyberRisk Alliance Acquires KNOW Identity™ Conference
- 9. TOOLS: PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit
- 10. TOOLS: infosecn1nja/Red-Teaming-Toolkit: This repository contains cutting-edge open-source security tools (OST) for a red teamer and threat hunter.
- 11. NEW PRODUCTS: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot: your copilot for work – Stories
More AI stuffs, but man is Microsoft moving quickly to get AI into its main business products!
- 12. ESSAYS: Threat Detection Bad Trips: Log Everything!
- 13. ESSAYS: Purple Teaming and Threat-Informed Detection Engineering
- 14. ESSAYS: IT Spend in 2023: Why Automation Will be the Hero
The latest from our very own Katie Teitler!
- 15. TALKS: Watering the Roots of Resilience: Learning from Failure with Decision Trees by Kelly Shortridge
The video from this talk isn't out yet, but there's some good stuff in the slides. Culminates in some great examples of using Kelly's 'Deciduous' tool (https://www.deciduous.app/) to map out failures.
- 16. THREADS: Why do senior executives buy from early-stage cybersecurity startups by Andrew Monaghan
An interesting insight from Andrew Monaghan. I'm sure there are some reasons that don't fall in one of these three buckets, but based on what I've seen, I'm inclined to agree that these are the 3 main drivers behind senior execs buying from early stage cybersecurity startups.
- 17. BREACHES: Ferrari confirms extortion attempt, but car maker refuses to pay ransom
- 18. TRENDS: Business Email Compromise Doubles in 2022, Overtaking Ransomware As Cybercrime Tactic of Choice
- 19. AI TRENDS: Companies are looking for ways to keep their corporate secrets out of ChatGPT
- 20. AI TRENDS: Artificial intelligence will replace work jerks. People skills will become more important.
- 21. AI TRENDS: Tweet from Daniel Feldman
A simple test, given to both GPT 3.5 and GPT 4
- 22. AI TRENDS: AI Hires a Human to Solve Captcha, Because It Couldn’t Solve It Itself – Gizmochina
You know what's different between AI and you? Those goosebumps on your arms right now and the ice water in your veins. AI can't do that.
- 23. SQUIRREL: Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything
- 24. SQUIRREL: Cyber Startup Buzzword Bingo: 2023 Edition
Just in time for the 2023 RSA Conference!
