IronNet to go public in $1.2 billion deal, as CEO Alexander warns of start of ‘digital arms race’
The combined company will move forward as IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., and be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IRNT.
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NightDragon’s Dave DeWalt: ‘This is the highest threat environment we’ve ever had, bar none’
SC Media sat down (virtually) with former FireEye and McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt to learn more about his special purpose acquisition company, NightDragon, and the 11 sectors they’re targeting for investment.
Startup that maps adversaries’ IT infrastructure lands $16 million in funding
HYAS offers threat intelligence services, but the company’s calling card revolves around two tools, called Insight and Protect, that pull around 3 billion data points about adversary infrastructure every day from various sources on the internet and third-party data brokers.
Data protection companies Arcserve and StorageCraft to merge
The move will allow the companies to combine their intellectual property, pool research and development budgets as executives look to expand their respective market footprints.
CrowdStrike $400M buy addresses ‘drastically different attack surface’
The purchase and integration of log management startup Humio is designed to account for the changes that have taken place in IT management over the last decade, particularly the reliance on multiple vendors and cloud services.
Quad9 to move offices to Switzerland, invites other privacy-focused firms to follow
Why would a company choose to relocate to a country with more stringent standards? As a proof point to customers. But other companies in the privacy community argue that building trust is more complicated than hopping a plane to Geneva.
Trinity Cyber snags big-name board additions
The startup run by former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert now counts among its board members the FireEye analyst that discovered the SolarWinds attack, and the co-founder of Tenable.
Ticketmaster fined $10 million in corporate espionage scheme
Ticketmaster tried to steal both a client and design ideas from a competitor by logging into the back-end system with a former employer’s login credentials.
Cerberus Cyber Sentinel buys Alpine Security
The deal, and implication of more to come, hint at increased hunger for third-party security auditing services in the face of worsening cybercrime, and an increasingly complex regulatory compliance landscape.
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.
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