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Versa Networks, Apiiro Show VCs Still Focused on Cybersecurity
A pair of recent $100 million funding rounds show that venture capital is still flowing into cybersecurity startups despite economic headwinds and rising interest rates. Versa Networks announced a funding round for $120 million last week, while Apiiro followed this week with a $100 million funding round. The two are addressing major issues like sprawling…
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What is Employee Monitoring? Full Guide to Getting It Right
Businesses have long wondered if employees are staying focused and doing their jobs. To answer this question, many in the modern age have turned to employee monitoring software. From facial recognition to surveillance cameras to time trackers to just having a couple guys standing over employees’ shoulders, there are a multitude of ways to make…
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More Than 90% of IT Decision Makers Struggle to Evaluate Security Products
The vast majority of cybersecurity decision makers – 91 percent, in fact – find it difficult to select security products due to unclear marketing, according to the results of a survey of 800 cybersecurity and IT decision makers released today by email security company Egress. “IT Security buyers don’t have as much time as they’d…
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NetSPI Lands $410 Million in Funding – And Other Notable Cybersecurity Deals
NetSPI, a top penetration testing and vulnerability management company, recently announced a $410 million funding round, a huge amount in a year in which $100+ million rounds have become a rarity. The investor was KKR, one of the world’s largest alternative asset firms. KKR previously invested $90 million in NetSPI in May 2021, so NetSPI…
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Web3 Cybersecurity: Are Things Getting Out of Control?
In a BNB Chain blog post in early October, the authors announced that about two million BNB crypto tokens were stolen. The value? It was over a whopping $560 million. At the time, the BNB Chain had $5.45 billion in DeFi (decentralized finance) assets. The platform is a part of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency.…
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Where VCs Are Investing in Cybersecurity
Between a plunging stock market, rising interest rates and a slumping economy, raising venture capital has not been easy this year. This has even been the case for high-priority categories like cybersecurity. According to data from PitchBook, venture capital investments have reached about $13.66 billion so far this year, down significantly from $26.52 billion in…
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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study
Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. The report, “Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care,” surveyed 641 healthcare IT and security practitioners and found that the most common…
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Security Training: Moving on from Nick Burns Through Better Communication
Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live nailed a tendency in IT to be overly absorbed in tech-speak and to do a poor job of educating users. The Nick Burns: Your Company Computer Guy skits showed rude IT guys belittling users as they fixed their “stupid” problems. A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and…
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Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed
Companies spend a staggering amount of money on cybersecurity products to defend their networks and data from hackers, but a couple of industry pros say that money is wasted if companies don’t change their internal cybersecurity culture. In September 2021, Cybersecurity Ventures anticipated in a report that the total global cybersecurity spending would exceed a…
