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.
You won't want to miss the excellent squirrel story - a front end for Reddit that looks like Microsoft Outlook.
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Adrian Sanabria
- FUNDING: Akamai Technologies Raises $1.08B Via Debt
- FUNDING: Resilience Raises $100MM Series D Round, Led by Intact Ventures with Participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners
- FUNDING: Horizon3.ai Raises $40M Series C to Confront Attackers with Proactive, Continuous Security Testing
- FUNDING: Announcing Our Felicis Led Series A Expansion to $27M – ConductorOne
ISPM (Identity Security Posture Management)
- FUNDING: Baird Capital Invests in Osano
- FUNDING: Symmetry Systems Raises $17.7M in Funding
DSPM
- FUNDING: Veza Announces Strategic Investments from Capital One Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures
- FUNDING: Sweet Security Raises $12M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: Gomboc.ai Emerges from Stealth and Raises Over $5M in Seed Funding to Deliver Cloud Infrastructure Remediation With Its Deterministic AI Engine
- FUNDING: Announcing ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform + $25 Million Series A
- FUNDING: DynamoFL Raises $15.1M Series A to Scale Privacy-Focused Generative AI for the Enterprise
- FUNDING: Rootly Raises $12 Million from Renegade Partners, Google Gradient Ventures, & XYZ Ventures
- FUNDING: Arpio Raises $8.2 Million Round – Arpio
- FUNDING: Grip Security raises $41M to help enterprises manage their SaaS identity risk
- ACQUISITION PROSPECTS: Exclusive: Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne explores sale -sources
- ACQUISITIONS: Protect AI reveals “the highest paying” bug bounty platform for AI hackers
- ACQUISITIONS: Partner One Acquires Key Fidelis Cybersecurity Assets
- HOT TAKE: “Quantum” Doesn’t Solve Anything for Cybersecurity
Reminds me of something I wrote 11 years ago! https://averysawaba.blogspot.com/2012/04/uncrackable-quantum-encryption-unicorns.html
Some things never change...
- HOT TAKE: Cost Per Record is still a terrible stat – Jay Jacobs
- ESSAYS: Who Will AI Help More—Attackers or Defenders?
- ESSAYS: Default behaviour sticks (And so do examples)
- ESSAYS: What is the UN cybercrime treaty and why does it matter?
- REPORTS: CISA (CSRB) Review of the Attacks Associated with LAPSUS$ and Related Threat Groups
- VULNERABILITIES: Industrial PLCs worldwide impacted by CODESYS V3 RCE flaws
EvilProxy phishing campaign targets 120,000 Microsoft 365 users
- REPORTS: Palo Alto Q4 Earnings Call & Medium Term Update
- REGULATIONS: SEC Cybersecurity Rule Leans on Materiality and Reasonableness
- NEW FEATURES: New Chrome Feature Alerts Users About Malicious Extensions
- SQUIRREL: “Hot Takes” with CISOs & CyberSecurity Leaders – Caleb Sima
- SQUIRREL: MSOutlookit
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