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International Business Machines Corp. today announced that it plans to acquire offensive cybersecurity startup Randori Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2018, Randori offers an attack platform with a continuous and automated red-team experience that can use to assess real-world security. …
Forescout to acquire threat detection and response startup Cysiv
Cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies Inc. said today it has inked a deal to acquire threat detection and response startup Cysiv Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2018, Cysiv offers a 24/7 security operations center as a service that promises proactive threat hunting …
New Qualys VMDR 2.0 delivers insights into risk posture
Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. today announced a new release of its Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response. The new cloud-based solution is designed to deliver unprecedented insights into an organization’s unique risk posture, along with the ability to use drag and drop workflows to …
CrowdStrike announces new products, adds new CrowdXDR Alliance members
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today introduced new features for its Falcon extended defense and response platform and has expanded its CrowdXDR Alliance with new key strategic partners. The first release is the CrowdStrike Asset Graph, a new graph database powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud …
SaaS security management startup AppOmni raises $70M
Software-as-a-service security management startup AppOmni Inc. said today it has raised $70 million in new funding to advance product development, fuel international growth and scale up go-to-market processes. The Series C round was led by Thoma Bravo and included Scale Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, ClearSky and …
Ethereum and NFTs stolen in hack of Yuga Labs Discord server
Hackers have stolen cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens after compromising a Discord server run by Yuga Labs Inc., the creator of leading NFTs such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The successful attack involved the compromise of an account belonging to Yuga Labs Community …
Cybersecurity VC firm Ten Eleven Ventures raises new $600M fund
Cybersecurity venture capital firm Ten Eleven Ventures today announced it has raised $600 million for its third-generation fund to invest in security companies ranging from seed to growth stage. Found in 2014, Ten Eleven Ventures finds, invests and helps grow top cybersecurity …
US government issues warning over ‘Karakurt’ data extortion group
The U.S. government has issued an alert about a little-known data extortion group actively targeting businesses. The June 1 alert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the Department of the Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network …
Increasing cybersecurity demand boosts Okta, CrowdStrike and Secureworks earnings
The weakening economy doesn’t appear to be hurting demand for cybersecurity services, as three cyber leaders today beat quarterly expectations: Okta Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Secureworks Corp. For the quarter ended April 30, Okta reported a loss before costs such as …
New Clumio service provides air gap ransomware protection for AWS EC2 and EBS
Enterprise data backup provider Clumio Inc. today announced the availability of a new cost-effective air gap ransomware protection solution, Clumio SecureVault Lite, for Amazon Web Services Inc. EC2 compute service and its EBS elastic block storage service. SecureVault Lite is pitched as allowing enterprises to …