Zoom brings local data storage to paying European customers

Zoom brings local data storage to paying European customers

Zoom has announced a slew of privacy-focused features and services, as the video communication company looks to appease customers concerned about where their data resides. With Europe pushing a digital sovereignty agenda, U.S. companies have been clambering to convince customers across the continent that they’re serious about handing over more control around data storage and […]

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Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform

Google Workspace and Cloud get support for passkeys

A month ago, Google rolled out passkey support to consumer Google accounts. Today, it is extending this to business users, with the open beta launch of passkeys for Google Workspace and Cloud accounts. Like almost every other major tech company, Google has been waging war against passwords for years. The promise of passkeys is that […]

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Memcyco raises $10M to protect businesses from brandjacking

Memcyco raises $10M to protect businesses from brandjacking

Memcyco, a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides businesses with tools to guard against website impersonation, today announced that it has raised a $10 million seed funding. The round was led by Capri Ventures and Venture Guides. The company provides businesses with a digital watermark that they can display on their sites to ensure visitors that […]

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Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores

Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores

Over the course of the last few years, thanks to its Altra and Altra Max processors, Ampere made a name for itself as one of the premier suppliers of Arm-based chips to large cloud services providers. These chips were also based on Arm-designed cores, though. Today, the company is officially launching the Ampere One family, […]

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1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys

1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys

Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to build passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to maintain their own security infrastructure. The rollout signals 1Password’s expansion beyond credential management and into the customer identity access management space. But it’s also on trend. Apple […]

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AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India

AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India

Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday, as it pushes ahead to scale up its AWS business in the key overseas market at a time when it has cut several other spendings in the region. The company, which has earlier invested $3.7 billion […]

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Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

Kubernetes and sigstore founders raise $17.5M to launch software supply chain startup Stacklok

After being instrumental in launching the Kubernetes open source project, Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda left Google to launch Heptio in 2016. They then sold the company to VMware in 2018. Both left VMware in 2022 and McLuckie went on to found a stealth startup after a short stint as an entrepreneur in […]

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Entro raises $6M to for its end-to-end secrets security solution

Entro raises $6M to for its end-to-end secrets security solution

Entro, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a security platform that helps enterprises manage and protect their secrets like account credentials, certificates and API keys, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures.  A number of angel investors, including Trusteer and Transmit Security founders […]

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Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business

Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business

Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillance and access control systems to secure buildings and other physical spaces — are doubling down on their businesses… quite literally. The pair of U.S. companies — majority owned by the same individual, security entrepreneur Dean Drako — […]

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Sources: IBM is buying Polar Security for $60M to bolster its tech in cloud data management

Sources: IBM is buying Polar Security for $60M to bolster its tech in cloud data management

Cyber startups continue to get scooped up by bigger tech players looking to bolt on newer and better technology to address an ever-growing array of security vulnerabilities among themselves and their customers. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned that IBM has acquired Polar Security, a startup founded in Israel that has built a platform […]

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