Unicorns Galore, Selling Text Messages, Spicy Takes, & Treacherous Devs – ESW #253
Finally, in the enterprise security news: At least a dozen cybersecurity companies announced raises totaling more than $900m - just in the past week!, Permira proposes to take Mimecast private for $5.8bn, The leader of a Swiss tech company is accused of selling access to text message data for surveillance, A former Ubiquiti developer was behind the big breach announced earlier this year - he unsuccessfully tried to extort his employer, SentinelOne tries to bring mobile security back?, Google and Trail of Bits team up to release a tool that scans for vulnerable Python packages, CISA has assembled a panel that will begin making cybersecurity recommendations, Make sure to stick around for, This week's spicy take - Cloudflare recommends ditching your firewall, and This week's squirrel story - a new streaming service from an unexpected source! All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly!
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Hosts
- 1. FUNDING: Claroty Advances Mission to Secure All Cyber-Physical Systems with $400 Million Funding and Acquisition of Medigate
- 2. FUNDING: Cloud security firm Panther Labs raises fresh funds at $1.4 bln valuation
- 3. FUNDING: Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Raises $80M at Nearly $1B Valuation
- 4. FUNDING: IRONSCALES Raises $64 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by PSG
- 5. FUNDING: Blockchain Intelligence Company TRM Labs Announces $60 million Series B Led by Tiger Global
- 6. FUNDING: Torq Raises $50M in Series B to Reinvent Security Automation for Modern Digital Enterprises
- 7. FUNDING: GitGuardian raises $44M to offer ‘comprehensive’ code security
- 8. FUNDING: Adlumin Secures $25 Million in Series B Funding
- 9. FUNDING: Kasada Raises $23M in Series C Funding
- 10. FUNDING: Grip Security raises $19M Series A for its SaaS security platform – TechCrunch
- 11. FUNDING: Truffle Security raises $14 million Series A led by a16z — Truffle Security
- 12. FUNDING: Chainguard lands $5M to help companies secure their software supply chains – TechCrunch
- 13. FUNDING: New VC firm, Ballistic Ventures
- 14. TAKE PRIVATE: Permira To Take Mimecast Private Approximately $5.8 Bln All-cash Deal – Quick Facts
- 15. TRENDS: Swiss tech company boss accused of selling mobile network access for spyingIf you need yet another reason to justify moving away from SMS-based multi-factor authentication, this is just the latest situation where text messages have been compromised. This time, the compromise was allegedly intentional.
- 16. TRENDS: Former Ubiquiti dev charged for trying to extort his employerInsider threat meets supply chain threat. As customers, there's not much we can do to avoid this kind of situation.
- 17. NEW PRODUCT: Singularity Mobile
- 18. TOOLS: Pip-audit: Google-backed tool probes Python environments for vulnerable packages
- 19. REGULATION: CISA’s advisory panel is announced, set to make recommendations on major cyber topics – CyberScoop
- 20. SPICY: Cloudflare CEO: Ditch Palo Alto Networks, Win a Trip to Oahu
- 21. SQUIRREL: Salesforce+You've probably heard of Disney+. Maybe Discovery+? How about Paramount+? AMC+? Well, now there's Salesforce+, and it's exactly what it sounds like. A streaming service from Salesforce. Some of the content is original, some is licensed, and some is indistinguishable from what you might see on Discovery+. It's a bit surreal.
