Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud

Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud

Secure web gateways — network security services designed to help organizations enforce IT policies around Internet usage by blocking (or letting through) certain traffic — are one of the most common investments that organizations make in their cybersecurity profiles. But as a product that’s been around for decades, there remains a lot of room for […]

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AI chipmaker Rebellions gets $22.8M Series A extension from Korean telco company KT 

Chain Reaction raises $70M, emerges from stealth to launch chips designed to compute encrypted data

As the networking industry explores homomorphic encryption, blockchains and other cryptographic techniques to take data protection and complex computing to the next level, one big roadblock to many of these working effectively and at scale has been the compute power required to run them. Today, one of the startups that believes it can address that […]

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Group of security companies launches open source project to ease data sharing

CyberSmart raises $15M for an all-in-one cybersecurity and insurance solution targeting SMBs

Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses, and today a startup building solutions for smaller enterprises is announcing a funding round to meet that demand. CyberSmart — a UK startup that has built an all-in-one platform providing cybersecurity technology for small and medium businesses, and cyber insurance if things go wrong […]

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Intel slashes dividend by nearly two-thirds to shore up cash as chip giant braces for a tough year

Intel slashes dividend by nearly two-thirds to shore up cash as chip giant braces for a tough year

In January, when Intel reported one of its worst financial quarters in years, the chip giant worked to keep up investor confidence by holding its dividend steady at $0.365/share. Less than a month later, it’s singing a very different tune. The company today announced that it was revising its dividend to $0.125 per share, down […]

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Sublime nabs $9.8M for an anti-phishing email security platform built on collective, crowdsourced rules

Sublime nabs $9.8M for an anti-phishing email security platform built on collective, crowdsourced rules

Malicious hackers are getting ever more creative with the techniques they use to break into networks to steal data and wreak havoc, but their primary route for opening that door has remained pretty consistent. Email is by far the most popular entry point for setting up and executing phishing, ransomware and other attack vectors, leading […]

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Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

Guardz emerges from stealth with $10M for SMB security and cyber insurance to protect against attack-as-a-service breaches

Small and medium businesses have become a growing target for malicious online hackers in recent years, currently accounting for between 43% and 61% of all security breaches and some $7 billion annually in related losses, according to different estimates. Today, a startup called Guardz is emerging from stealth with a two-part offering aimed at protecting […]

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Strata, a provider of identity orchestration to bridge disparate log-in procedures, raises $26M

Strata, a provider of identity orchestration to bridge disparate log-in procedures, raises $26M

Many believe the key to keeping networks and data secure lies in watertight identity and log-in management, but what happens when you are using a variety of apps, platforms, and a hybrid of cloud and other servers and networks that cannot be used with the same ID management tool? A startup called Strata Identity working […]

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Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as tech layoffs continue

Alexa Fund’s Paul Bernard talks OpenAI, what’s catching his eye and remaining relevant as Amazon restructures

Amazon made headlines this month when the company began to work through its long-rumored 18,000 job cuts. Going, too, are a number of products and strategies as the company right-sizes for the current state of the economy, the market’s attitude to tech stocks and the current landscape as dictated by its competitors and would-be rivals. […]

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Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks

Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks

Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security, and other complicated architectures that might have a number of components working (or malfunctioning as the case may be) in tandem. Today, a startup called Forward Networks — […]

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Hack the Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

Hack the Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system, and those who are using the same techniques to understand the system’s vulnerabilities, help fix them, and at the same time to fight against the malicious actors. Today, Hack the Box, one […]

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