Record startup funding, identity and context, and the Hot Ones format comes to Cyber! – ESW #329
Record funding levels over the last two weeks top 2023 and the same time last year. We discuss Palo Alto's plans for the future, CISA's analysis of the LAPSUS$ hacking group, and the uselessness of Quantum Security pitches. Chrome adds the ability to alert users about malicious extensions. A great post from Thinkst has us talking about why vendors (and buyers) need to be careful about default behaviors and documentation.
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Hosts
- 1. FUNDING: Akamai Technologies Raises $1.08B Via Debt
- 2. FUNDING: Resilience Raises $100MM Series D Round, Led by Intact Ventures with Participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners
- 3. FUNDING: Horizon3.ai Raises $40M Series C to Confront Attackers with Proactive, Continuous Security Testing
- 4. FUNDING: Announcing Our Felicis Led Series A Expansion to $27M – ConductorOne
ISPM (Identity Security Posture Management)
- 5. FUNDING: Baird Capital Invests in Osano
- 6. FUNDING: Symmetry Systems Raises $17.7M in Funding
DSPM
- 7. FUNDING: Veza Announces Strategic Investments from Capital One Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures
- 8. FUNDING: Sweet Security Raises $12M in Seed Funding
- 9. FUNDING: Gomboc.ai Emerges from Stealth and Raises Over $5M in Seed Funding to Deliver Cloud Infrastructure Remediation With Its Deterministic AI Engine
- 10. FUNDING: Announcing ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform + $25 Million Series A
- 11. FUNDING: DynamoFL Raises $15.1M Series A to Scale Privacy-Focused Generative AI for the Enterprise
- 12. FUNDING: Rootly Raises $12 Million from Renegade Partners, Google Gradient Ventures, & XYZ Ventures
- 13. FUNDING: Arpio Raises $8.2 Million Round – Arpio
- 14. FUNDING: Grip Security raises $41M to help enterprises manage their SaaS identity risk
- 15. ACQUISITION PROSPECTS: Exclusive: Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne explores sale -sources
- 16. ACQUISITIONS: Protect AI reveals “the highest paying” bug bounty platform for AI hackers
- 17. ACQUISITIONS: Partner One Acquires Key Fidelis Cybersecurity Assets
- 18. HOT TAKE: “Quantum” Doesn’t Solve Anything for Cybersecurity
Reminds me of something I wrote 11 years ago! https://averysawaba.blogspot.com/2012/04/uncrackable-quantum-encryption-unicorns.html
Some things never change...
- 19. HOT TAKE: Cost Per Record is still a terrible stat – Jay Jacobs
- 20. ESSAYS: Who Will AI Help More—Attackers or Defenders?
- 21. ESSAYS: Default behaviour sticks (And so do examples)
- 22. ESSAYS: What is the UN cybercrime treaty and why does it matter?
- 23. REPORTS: CISA (CSRB) Review of the Attacks Associated with LAPSUS$ and Related Threat Groups
- 24. VULNERABILITIES: Industrial PLCs worldwide impacted by CODESYS V3 RCE flaws
EvilProxy phishing campaign targets 120,000 Microsoft 365 users
- 25. REPORTS: Palo Alto Q4 Earnings Call & Medium Term Update
- 26. REGULATIONS: SEC Cybersecurity Rule Leans on Materiality and Reasonableness
- 27. NEW FEATURES: New Chrome Feature Alerts Users About Malicious Extensions
- 28. SQUIRREL: “Hot Takes” with CISOs & CyberSecurity Leaders – Caleb Sima
- 29. SQUIRREL: MSOutlookit
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