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Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, BlueVoyant raises a $250M Series D to become security’s newest unicorn (baby unicorn, awww), Balbix raises a $70M Series C, Scope Security announces a $20M Series A to specifically focus on monitoring and defense for healthcare, Palo Alto introduces a new product aiming to disrupt the SIEM market, Third Party Risk Management vendors come together to forge the one ring of standards to rule all of cyber (less forge, more rubber stamp though), Signal Science founder, former Etsy CISO, and honorary level 80 DevOps wizard Zane Lackey is now a general partner at Andreesen Horowitz (A16Z), All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly!
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Adrian Sanabria
- FUNDING: BlueVoyant nabs $250M to help enterprises nab malicious hackers and stop security breaches – TechCrunchThis $250M Series D is an interesting one. BlueVoyant between a services firm and a software firm. On the services side, they've got professional services and are an MDR firm. On the software side, they have Digital Risk Management and Third Party Risk Management offerings.
- FUNDING: Balbix Announces $70M Series C Funding to Fuel AI Innovation in Cybersecurity Posture Automation
- FUNDING: Scope Security Announces $20M Series A Funding Round Led by Thrive Capital
- FUNDING: BastionZero Raises $6M in Seed Funding
- TRENDS: Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 35 Deals Announced in February 2022https://www.securityweek.com/cybersecurity-ma-roundup-35-deals-announced-february-2022
- TRENDS: The Crunchbase Unicorn Board
- TRENDS: Epic Games just bought an entire Bandcamp, and it’s not even Friday – TechCrunchI think we're starting to see some Metaverse moves this week. Epic Games picks up Bandcamp. Netflix picks up Next Games. The lines are starting to blur.
- NEW PRODUCTS: Can Palo Alto Networks XSIAM Disrupt SIEM Security Software Market? – MSSP Alert
- NEW PRODUCTS: Infra – “The Open Source Identity Engine”Not a ton of information on this one, but looks like they're addressing admin/engineer access to infrastructure and apps, which apparently is a trickier issue than I previously realized. They mention support for UI, API, and CLI-based authentication.
- STANDARDS: Third Party Risk Management and Cybersecurity Leaders from BitSight, Black Kite, Panorays, RiskRecon, SecurityScorecard Formally Adopt Shared Assessments’ First Ever Unified Third Party Continuous Monitoring Cybersecurity Taxonomy
- PEOPLE: Zane Lackey joins A16Z as GPAfter Signal Science's successful exit to Fastly, CISO, founder, CEO, and angel investor Zane Lackey goes VC for the next step on his journey.
- SQUIRREL: Emerge Home – a social VR experience you can feel
