Channel investors

Vulnerability Management

Mergers and Acquisitions

Brief

Improved vulnerability reporting sought by BrowserStack with new acquisition

The CISCO  brand logo during the Mobile World Congress

AI/ML

Cisco acquires Robust Intelligence

Acronis-logo-invert

Cloud Security

EQT nabs majority share in Acronis

<body>This week, it’s time for security money, our quarterly review of the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. This quarter, Crowdstrike crashes the index, as Thoma Bravo acquires another index company. The index is currently made up of the following 25 pure play cybersecurity public companies:</body>

<body>This week, it’s time for security money, our quarterly review of the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. This quarter, Crowdstrike crashes the index, as Thoma Bravo acquires another index company. The index is currently made up of the following 25 pure play cybersecurity public companies:</body>

<body><ul><li>Secureworks Corp </li><li>Palo Alto Networks Inc</li><li>Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. </li><li>Rubrik Inc </li><li>Gen Digital Inc </li><li>Fortinet Inc </li><li>Akamai Technologies, Inc. </li><li>F5 Inc </li><li>Zscaler Inc </li><li>Onespan Inc </li><li>Leidos Holdings Inc </li><li>Qualys Inc </li><li>Verint Systems Inc. </li><li>Cyberark Software Ltd </li><li>Tenable Holdings Inc </li><li>Darktrace PLC </li><li>SentinelOne Inc </li><li>Cloudflare Inc </li><li>Crowdstrike Holdings Inc </li><li>NetScout Systems, Inc. </li><li>Varonis Systems Inc </li><li>Rapid7 Inc </li><li>Fastly Inc </li><li>Radware Ltd </li><li>A10 Networks Inc</li></ul></body>

Featured image for {“vendor”:”ppworks”,”type”:”segment”,”id”:”12973″} podcast from PPWorks

Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

Private equity

Security Money: Crowdstrike Crashes the Index – BSW #360

fortinet_AdobeStock_415333057_Editorial_Use_Only

Fortinet closes on Lacework acquisition

<body>In this week's enterprise security news,</body>

<body>In this week's enterprise security news, </body>

<body><ol><li>Google is rumored to be considering acquiring Wiz for $23 BILLION</li><li>ThreatConnect acquires Polarity</li><li>XBOW and Sola Security are interesting new companies we’ll discuss</li><li>What does “shared responsibility” actually mean?</li><li>Palo Alto probably isn’t going to buy your startup</li><li>Snowflake-related breaches continue getting worse</li><li>MUCH less AI talk than usual</li><li>Defragmenting your browser</li></ol></body>

<body>All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.</body>

<body>All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.</body>

Featured image for {“vendor”:”ppworks”,”type”:”segment”,”id”:”13027″} podcast from PPWorks

Breach

Rumored Wiz Deal Would be HISTORIC (if it happens), redefining shared responsibility – ESW #368

<body>We've made a slight tweak to the news format, only focusing on the most interesting funding and acquisition stories. As always, you can go check out Mike Privette's <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://returnonsecurity.com">Return on Security newsletter</a> for the full list of funded and acquired companies every week.</body>

<body>We've made a slight tweak to the news format, only focusing on the most interesting funding and acquisition stories. As always, you can go check out Mike Privette's <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://returnonsecurity.com">Return on Security newsletter</a> for the full list of funded and acquired companies every week.</body>

<body>This week, we discuss two $100M+ rounds, from Huntress and Semperis. We also discuss NetSPI's acquisition of Hubble, and the future of the CAASM market.</body>

<body>This week, we discuss two $100M+ rounds, from Huntress and Semperis. We also discuss NetSPI's acquisition of Hubble, and the future of the CAASM market.</body>

<body>We focus on the important of detection engineering, echoing some of Martin Roesch's thoughts from our interview with him just before the news. One story is from the excellent DFIR report, a website and newsletter you should absolutely be subscribed to if detection engineering is important to you. The other story is from Thinkst, and showcases their ability to create file share honeypots with file listings that can now be tailored to specific industries.</body>

<body>We focus on the important of detection engineering, echoing some of Martin Roesch's thoughts from our interview with him just before the news. One story is from the excellent DFIR report, a website and newsletter you should absolutely be subscribed to if detection engineering is important to you. The other story is from Thinkst, and showcases their ability to create file share honeypots with file listings that can now be tailored to specific industries.</body>

<body>We discuss the results of some polls that RSnake ran on Twitter, to get feedback from folks on what they think about these models where CISOs are reportedly getting kickbacks for buying products from companies they advise.</body>

<body>We discuss the results of some polls that RSnake ran on Twitter, to get feedback from folks on what they think about these models where CISOs are reportedly getting kickbacks for buying products from companies they advise.</body>

<body>We also discuss the latest whistleblower insights about Microsoft and the state of security there, and the recent Polyfill.io incident that targeted over 100k websites with malware.</body>

<body>We also discuss the latest whistleblower insights about Microsoft and the state of security there, and the recent Polyfill.io incident that targeted over 100k websites with malware.</body>

<body>Finally, we spend the rest of the news segment discussing the current state of Generative AI, from our own perspectives, but also through the lens of Bruce Schneier's latest blog post, a year old post from Marc Andreesen, and a rage-fueled rant from an angry Aussie.</body>

<body>Finally, we spend the rest of the news segment discussing the current state of Generative AI, from our own perspectives, but also through the lens of Bruce Schneier's latest blog post, a year old post from Marc Andreesen, and a rage-fueled rant from an angry Aussie.</body>

<body>Don't miss the squirrel story - we highly recommend sending it to all your PhD friends (or not, if they're easily insulted and/or likely to hold a grudge).</body>