This week, we changed things up a bit for the news segment and Allie Mellen joins us as a surprise guest host! We discuss Cisco's Splunk acquisition and what it means for Splunk customers, and "The Blob" - Allie's term describing the negative forces responsible for much of the overhyped marketing, silly trends, and substandard products we see in the industry.
Segment Resources: Allie's blog on Cisco/Splunk: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/splunk-is-good-for-cisco-but-cisco-needs-to-convince-splunk-customers-that-cisco-is-good-for-them/ Allie's blog on The Blob: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-blob-is-poisoning-the-security-industry/
Allie Mellen is the author of Code War: How Nations Hack, Spy, and Shape the Digital Battlefield. She is a leading industry analyst who advises the Global 2000 on cybersecurity policy and practice, with a focus on detecting and responding to nation-state attacks. She is a featured speaker at many leading security conferences, including RSA Conference, Black Hat, SANS events, and others. Her insights are frequently featured in top business and technology outlets such as NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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Adrian Sanabria
- FUNDING: Dragos Raises an Additional $74M in Series D Round
- FUNDING: Israeli cyber firm Legit Security raises $40 million in private funding
- FUNDING: Announcing Alcion’s Series A and General Availability of Our AI-driven Backup-as-a-Service Platform
$21M Series A, led by Veeam. This is an interesting one. So the primary two founders, Niraj Tolia and Vaibhav Kamra sold their previous company, Kasten, to Veeam in late 2020. Kasten made a Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery product.
It seems that Kasten's two founders have spun out of Veeam, but are primarily funded by them, suggesting that the new company, Alcion, will also be eventually acquired by Veeam. The new company is also backup-focused, but on Microsoft 365 this time, rather than containers.
- FUNDING: European cyber insurance startup Stoïk raises $10.7 million and expands to Germany
- FUNDING: Rocket.Chat Raises US$10M in Series A Bridge Funding
- FUNDING: Discern Security Raises $3M in Seed Funding
- ACQUISITIONS: WatchGuard Acquires CyGlass – CyGlass
- ACQUISITIONS: GlassWire Joins Forces with Domotz!
- ACQUISITION RUMORS: Palo Alto Networks in advanced negotiations to acquire Dig Security in $300-$400 million deal
- NEW TOOLS: Sowing Chaos and Reaping Rewards in Confluence and Jira
- NEW PRODUCTS: Introducing Semgrep Secrets
- NEW PRODUCTS: runZero 4.0: Introducing the runZero Platform and our new Community Edition
- ESSAYS: Finding Your Moat – mattjay
- ESSAYS: The Compounding Power of Ideas
- ESSAYS: CISOs are struggling to get cybersecurity budgets: Report
- RESEARCH: When It Comes to Email Security, the Cloud You Pick Matters
- RANT: Security awareness assessments actively harmful to security (from @cybergibbons on Twitter)
I'm not going to call out the particular vendor named in this rant, because I don't think this issue is unique to one vendor. The questions on this assessment are, at best, vague and confusing. At worst, I have to agree with the poster - they're actively harmful.
- SQUIRREL: It’s not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
