Finally, in the enterprise security news,
- Lots of new security startups with early stage funding
- SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos’s consulting firm
- PE firm picks up ActiveState - a company I haven’t thought about since I last downloaded ActiveState Perl 1000 years ago
- Microsoft announces the limited release of Security Copilot
- Semgrep releases a secrets scanner
- AGI predicted to come much sooner than you might expect
- NY State doubles down on cybersecurity regulations to protect its hospitals
- the young hackers behind Mirai, one of the biggest botnets ever
- Ransomware groups snitch on businesses to the SEC
Adrian Sanabria
- FUNDING: Vulcan Cyber Closes $55 Million Series B with Additional $34 Million to Solidify Position as a Leader in Cyber Risk Management
- FUNDING: Securing Our Vision: The $6.4M Seed Funding Milestone
- FUNDING: Risk Ledger Secures £6.25M to Prevent Cyber Attacks on the Supply Chains of Nation’s Largest Enterprises
- FUNDING: Myrror Security Raises $6M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: Tidal Cyber Raises $5M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: HydroX AI: Building a One-Stop Platform for LLM Security and Privacy
- FUNDING: Protecto Raises $4M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: Attack Surface Management Technology Provider Cavelo Announces CAD$5M Funding Round
- ACQUISITIONS: SentinelOne® Launches PinnacleOne Strategic Advisory Group
SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos's consulting firm, Krebs Stamos Group LLC, rebranding it as PinnacleOne (redundant?) Strategic Advisory Group
- ACQUISITIONS: Vertu Capital Acquires Secure Open Source Integration Platform Company, ActiveState
- DIVESTITURES: ThreatDown: A new chapter for Malwarebytes
- NEW PRODUCTS: Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security for AI at Microsoft Ignite
- NEW PRODUCTS: Introducing Semgrep Secrets
- ESSAYS: Why We’ll Have AGI by 2025-2028
TL;DR - Daniel's theory is that AGI won't first emerge as a single packaged product, but will be the product of many smaller AI products integrated together.
- ESSAYS: As cars hoover up more and more drivers’ data, is it time to regulate the industry?
- REGULATIONS: New York State Cybersecurity Strategy
- REGULATIONS: New York State Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies
- REGULATIONS: Governor Hochul Announces Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals Throughout New York State
- INVESTIGATIONS: The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
- VULNERABILITIES: In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack
- SQUIRREL: Are ransomware groups using the SEC as leverage now?
Ransomware group hacks public company... then turns them into the SEC for not reporting the breach within the new required timelimit???










