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Security management platform startup PlexTrac raises $70M
Security management platform startup PlexTrac Inc. has raised $70 million in new funding to accelerate its growth by expanding market reach, increasing brand awareness and doubling its headcount. Insight Partners led the Series B round, with Madrona Venture Group, Noro-Moseley Partners and StageDotO Ventures also participating. Including the new round, PlexTrax has raised $81 million to date, ...
Intel brings together elite hackers in new Project Circuit Breaker
Intel Corp. today expanded its bug bounty program with a new offering that brings together a community of elite hackers to reshape vulnerability management. The new Project Circuit Breaker brings together hackers to hunt for bugs in firmware, hypervisors, graphics processing units, chips and more. Expanding on Intel’s existing bug bounty program that opened to ...
New Lacework platform helps companies uncover suspicious activity in the multicloud
Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today unveiled a new platform designed to help companies automatically uncover suspicious activity across a multicloud environment. Called the Polygraph Data Platform, the service can detect and address genuine threats and risks to business from build time through runtime. Through a combined agentless and agent-based approach, the platform uses cloud service provider application ...
LogMeIn rebrands as GoTo to reflect its mission of making IT easy anywhere
Fresh from announcing in December that it was spinning off LastPass as a separate company, LogMeIn Inc. announced today that it’s rebranding as GoTo to better reflect the company’s mission of making information technology management easy anywhere. GoTo is an existing product within the LogMeIn portfolio. The change of name to GoTo goes beyond a new name ...
Cyberattack on German fuel and oil distributors disrupts operations
A cyberattack has struck two German fuel and oil distributors, disrupting operations and supply chain management. The attack targeted Oittanking Deutschland GmbH and Mabanaft GmbH & Co KG Group, both subsidiaries of Marquard & Bahls AG, on Jan. 29. The form of cyberattack has not been disclosed. Oiltanking supplies 26 companies in Germany with fuel, including ...
Tenable agrees to acquire attack path management startup Cymptom
Tenable Inc. today said it has entered an agreement to acquire Cymptom Labs Ltd., an attack path management startup, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2019, Cymptom proactively measures the impact of cybersecurity risk by mapping all attack paths before they happen. The company’s platform maps critical risk to the MITRE ATT&CK framework using agentless ...
Check Point acquires Israeli code security startup Spectral
Cybersecurity giant Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today announced it has acquired Israeli code security startup Spectral Cyber Technologies Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Spectral offers developers the ability to build and shift software without worry through tools for security that the company says are simple, fast and “cool.” Offering fast code ...
Biometric user authentication startup Passage launches with $4M in funding
Biometric user authentication startup Passage today launched out of stealth mode and announced that it has raised $4 million in new funding to help introduce its product to more developers. The round was led by LiveOak Venture Partners with Next Coast Ventures, Tau Ventures, Secure Octane and various angel investors also participating. Founded in 2021, Passage ...
TPG changes access management firm ThycoticCentrify’s name to Delinea
Privileged access management company ThycoticCentrify has dispensed with its awkward moniker, as owner TPG Capital today renamed it Delinea Inc. ThycoticCentrify dates back to the merger of Thycotic Software Ltd. and Centrify Corp. in April. Thycotic and Centrify were acquired by TPG in March — Thycotic from Insight Partners and Centrify from Thoma Bravo. The new brand ...
Talon Cyber Security raises $43M from Sorenson, Evolution, Lightspeed and Team8
Cybersecurity solutions startup Talon Cyber Security Ltd. today announced that it has raised $43 million in new funding, including $17 million in so-called simple agreement for future equity investments. Investors include Sorenson Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Lightspeed, Team8 and several individuals. Including the new funding, Talon has raised $43 million to date. SAFE agreements, created in 2013 by the ...