Cybersecurity Unicorns Are Back, the Okta Breach Is Bad, & Don’t Invest in Startups – ESW #337
This week, we discuss Island's raise, unicorn status, and what that means for both the enterprise browser market and the cybersecurity market in general. We discuss Censys and the state of the external attack surface management market, or what they're trying to call, "exposure management". We discuss the details of the Okta breach in depth, and why we're worried about the larger impact it could have on the industry and vendor trust in general. Finally, we wrap up with some fun squirrel stories.
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- 1. FUNDING: Island Raises $100 Million In Series C Funding; Increases Valuation to $1.5 Billion
new funding validates massive product-market fit
- 2. FUNDING: Cybersecurity software provider SecureW2 raises $80m from Insight Partners
- 3. FUNDING: Censys Secures $75M in New Funding
- 4. FUNDING: Adlumin Closes $70M Series B, Fueling its Mission of Bringing Enterprise-Grade Security to Mid-Market Organizations
- 5. FUNDING: Prove Identity Raises $40M in Funding
- 6. FUNDING: Fingerprint Raises $33M in Series C Funding
- 7. FUNDING: Darwinium Raises $18 Million for Edge-Based Fraud Prevention Tech
- 8. FUNDING: Spec Secures $15M Series A Funding, Accelerating Innovation in Fraud Defense
- 9. FUNDING: Deepfake Detection Platform Reality Defender Secures $15 Million in Series A Funding Led by DCVC
- 10. FUNDING: Harmonic Security Lands $7M Funding to Secure Generative AI Deployments
- 11. FUNDING: Zygon raises $3M in seed funding to create security solutions for the SaaS era
- 12. NEW COMPANIES: Expent – Automating Vendor Management
- 13. NEW TOOLS: HAR Sanitizer
- 14. NEW TOOLS: BlueTuxedo
A tiny tool built to find and fix common misconfigurations in Active Directory-Integrated DNS.
- 15. HACKS: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with Ads
Forget Juice Jacking - if you want to worry about weird side-channel attacks, check out these findings on some shady HDMI adapters!
- 16. HACKS: They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
- 17. BREACHES: How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
- 18. BREACHES: Okta Support System incident and 1Password
- 19. BREACHES: BeyondTrust Discovers Breach of Okta Support Unit
- 20. ESSAYS: Cyber Governance: What is Fair to Expect from Board Directors and Management? 3 of 4
Third in a series of four essays from Jerry Perrulo.
- 21. ESSAYS: Threat-informed Defense Is Hard, So We Are Still Not Doing It!
Exploring this via social media
- 22. ESSAYS: The Role of a Cybersecurity Architect – Frank McGovern
- 23. TRENDS: HSBC bans company phone texting
Yeah, good luck with that.
- 24. LEGISLATION: Top US Cyber Agency Pushing Toward First Hack Reporting Rule
- 25. SQUIRREL: How to Exit Nano
- 26. SQUIRREL: Another Day, Another KEV Viz
Bad visualizations plague most industries, and cybersecurity is no different.
