Opus Security emerges from stealth to help tackle cloud security threats

Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment

Proving that there’s still plenty of venture money in cybersecurity, cloud identity security platform Britive today announced that it raised $20.5 million in a Series B funding round. Led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from Liberty Global Ventures, Crosslink Capital and One Way Ventures, the new brings Britive’s total raised to $36 million. CEO […]

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OpsHelm emerges from stealth to automatically correct your security blunders

Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt, which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group. Founder Sachin Nayyar, who returned to Saviynt as CEO this week alongside newly-appointed […]

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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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Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform

Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform

Axiom, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on automating identity and access management (IAM) for developer platforms, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7 million seed round led by S Capital. The idea here is to provide a single platform that provides developers with easy access to the tools they need and […]

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Rezonate raises $8.7M and launches its cloud identity protection platform out of stealth

Rezonate raises $8.7M and launches its cloud identity protection platform out of stealth

Rezonate, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based startup that offers an agent-less cloud identity protection platform that aims to help DevOps teams minimize attackers’ opportunities to breach cloud identity and access, is coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8.7 million seed funding round, led by State of Mind Ventures and Flybridge, with participation from […]

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What is Apple Passkey, and how will it help you go passwordless?

What is Apple Passkey, and how will it help you go passwordless?

As Apple is rolling out its iOS 16 update today, one of the key security-facing features that will be available to users is Passkey. This feature will allow users to use their Apple devices to login to websites and services without any passwords. What is Passkey? Passkeys are the company’s implementation of an industry standard […]

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Plex warns users to reset passwords after data breach

Plex warns users to reset passwords after data breach

Streaming media platform Plex has confirmed a data breach and is warning users to change their passwords. Plex said it discovered the compromise on Tuesday and found the intruder had accessed “a limited subset of data that includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.” Plex vice-president of engineering Schuyler Ullman told TechCrunch that user account passwords […]

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That message from ‘Twitter Support’ is almost certainly fake

Twitter whistleblower says platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6

Among the many damning allegations in the newly released Twitter whistleblower complaint, is the disquieting revelation that Twitter was unable to seal its production environment to guard against any potential insider threats amid the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Twitter’s former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko has accused Twitter of serious cybersecurity […]

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Ping Identity CEO discusses his company’s long, strange startup trip

Ping Identity CEO discusses his company’s long, strange startup trip

Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand sees another opportunity to continue growing the company under private equity ownership.

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Thoma Bravo picks up Ping Identity for $2.8B in an all-cash deal

Thoma Bravo picks up Ping Identity for $2.8B in an all-cash deal

After a tough few months in the markets for Ping Identity, the enterprise identity management company today announced a big move: private equity firm Thoma Bravo is buying the company and taking it private for $2.8 billion. The news was announced at the same time that Ping posted its Q2 earnings. The company said it […]

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