Cloud security startup Altitude Networks Inc. today said it has raised $9 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by Felicis Ventures and included Slack Fund, Accomplice and Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook Inc. Founded in 2018 by former Twitter Inc. Chief Information Security Officer Michael Coates and Amir ...

An Elasticsearch database with more than 134 million records belonging to car maker Honda Motor Co. was discovered unsecured online by a security researcher earlier this month in yet another case of a company failing to secure its cloud-hosted data properly. Discovered by researcher Justin Paine and detailed on Rainbowtabl.es today, the database was found ...

Cloud-based call center software firm Five9 Inc. smashed analysts predictions with its second-quarter financial results today, delivering its 14th consecutive quarter of positive cash flow. For the quarter ending June 30, Five9 recorded revenue of $77.4 million, up 27% from a year ago, while its gross margin came in at 59.6%, just above 59.4% in ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. is set to go public in September after filing a confidential S-1 application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today from Business Insider. Cloudflare was first reported to be considering an initial public offering this year in October, but those plans were speculated to be on ...

The day after multibillion-dollar financial services company Capital One Financial Corp. disclosed that more than 100 million customers records had been stolen via a poorly secured cloud instance, new ramifications keep on emerging. Now, concerns are being raised in regard to both privacy and cloud security. That’s all the more so because it’s still unknown ...

Identity verification startup Truework today said it has raised $12 million in new funding to scale up its product and engineering teams and expand the scope of its identity platform for consumer and enterprise users. The Series A round was led by Sequoia Capital and included Stanford University, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Founder Collective. Founded ...

Updated: Apple Inc.’s earnings beat market expectations today with its latest quarterly report, and the company Steve Jobs built managed to do so despite weak iPhone sales. For Apple’s fiscal third quarter, the company reported $53.8 billion in revenue, up 1% over the same quarter last year. Profit fell 7%, to $2.18 per share, which ...

Attack interception Cybersecurity firm Confluera Inc. announced today that it has raised $9 million in new funding to accelerate its growth and to bring its main cybersecurity product to market. The Series A round was led by Lightspeed and included Microsoft Corp. Chairman John W. Thompson; Frank Slootman, former chief executive officer of ServiceNow Inc; and Lane Bess, former CEO of Palo ...

Data privacy compliance startup DataGrail Inc. today said it has raised $5 million in new funding to accelerate growth and meet increasing demands for a product it describes as privacy as a service. The round was led by existing investor Cloud Apps Capital Partners and included participation from Okta Ventures, the fairly new venture capital fund ...

Security startup Trinity Cyber Inc. said today it has raised $23 million in funding from Intel Capital to build out a service it claims is an entirely new approach to cybersecurity: stealth interception of external threats. Founded in 2016, Trinity Cyber offers technology-enabled operations that actively prevent attacks. Acting as an addition to traditional cybersecurity offerings, the ...