Early-stage cybersecurity investment flowing, despite pandemic
While most industries saw a significant dip in seed and Series A investments last year, cybersecurity investment remained resilient.
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CISA says multiple attacks on cloud services bypassed multifactor authentication
Threat actors have used a variety of tactics and techniques—including phishing, brute force login attempts, and possibly a so-called “pass-the-cookie” attack that bypassed multifactor authentication to exploit cloud security weaknesses.
JumpCloud land $100 million in funding, as secure remote access market continues surge
Over the past two decades, businesses have piled a patchwork of different products and services – multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, identity governance and administration policies and others – on top of their directory. That introduces risk and complexity, says Jumpcloud CEO Rajat Bhargava.
Digital nationalism and the complexity of emerging threats for multinational companies
Nicolas Reys of Control Risks spoke with SC Media about how companies can position themselves to rebound from a year complicated by the pandemic, climate change challenges and deteriorating U.S.-China relations.
SolarWinds hack poses risk to cloud services’ API keys and IAM identities
The SolarWinds hack endangers not just organizations’ on-premises systems but also their cloud-based infrastructure.
2021 tech predictions: The conceptual gets real
Community and market experts found some consensus: cloud security will dominate strategies and investments even more that it did during 2020, and technologies once deemed “on the horizon” – think automation, 5G and even the much hyped artificial intelligence – will officially arrive.
Thales, Google Cloud collaboration puts private keys in hands of the enterprise
The agreement that will compel quicker migration of sensitive data between public clouds, private clouds and private IT infrastructure.
Orca aims to fix ‘fundamentally broken’ cloud security with latest funding round
The company raised $55 million in Series B funding, and from May 2020 to the end of next year expects to nearly triple its R&D team.
NSA: Russian-linked hackers are exploiting new VMWare product vulnerabilities to steal data
NSA strongly urged network administrators that work in or with the Defense Department to prioritize patching, but the vulnerability extends to all companies that rely on the VMWare products.
CISOs face a whole new budget world this year
The first priority for CISOs has become building cyber resilience. This means migrating to the cloud, enforcing cloud security, and enabling a “work from anywhere” workforce. We’ll see this play out through investment in three distinct areas.
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