Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Miggo Security raises $17M to advance real-time application threat protection

Israeli cybersecurity startup Miggo Security today announced that it has raised $17 million in new funding to scale up its platform and expand its global reach. Founded in 2022, Miggo offers an application detection and response platform designed to address critical gaps in application security by enabling security teams to detect and respond to targeted application attacks ...

Tesla stock rises despite earnings miss as Musk shifts focus back to company

Shares in Tesla Inc. rose more than 4% in late trading today after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk announced that he would be spending less time on the Department of Government Efficiency and more time on Tesla starting in May. The shares rose despite the company’s first-quarter earnings report falling short of expectations. For the ...

Descope launches Agentic Identity Hub to simplify authentication for AI agents and workflows

Authentication and user management platform company Descope Inc. today announced the launch of Agentic Identity Hub, a platform that helps organizations solve authentication and authorization challenges for artificial intelligence agents, systems and workflows. The new platform includes the ability to provide apps with an easy way to become agent-ready while requiring user consent. That provides agents a scalable ...

Action1 expands enterprise capabilities with advanced autonomous patching and analytics

Autonomous endpoint management company Action1 Corp. today announced major upgrades to its AEM platform, with new enhancements to autonomous patching capabilities, advanced analytics and exploit intelligence. The updates deliver new levels of control and scalability tailored for enterprise needs, starting with the launch of Update Rings, a new feature that enhances autonomous patching by supporting structured, phased ...

1Password launches Agentic AI Security and extends XAM platform capabilities

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today announced significant advancements in its security offerings with the introduction of new agentic artificial intelligence capabilities and enhanced features to its Extended Access Management platform. The new releases are aimed at securing and governing both human and nonhuman access and, in doing so, ensuring protection as AI agents and ...

Snyk API & Web simplifies app security testing with AI-powered tools

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced the launch of Snyk API & Web, a new dynamic application security testing or DAST solution designed to meet the growing demands of modern and increasingly artificial intelligence-powered software development. The new service integrates technology from Probley, a Portuguese startup acquired by Snyk in November, into Snyk’s application security platform. The ...

Sentra lands $50M to scale cloud-native data security and AI safeguards

Cloud security startup Sentra Inc. announced today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its platform and fortify its position in the digital security platform space. Founded in 2021, Sentra offers cloud-native data security for the artificial intelligence era, with a mission to empower organizations to securely leverage data in new ways. The ...

Security operations startup Kenzo raises $4.5M to expand AI-powered platform

Security operations startup Kenzo Security Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $4.5 million in funding to grow its engineering and sales teams and expand its platform’s capabilities. Kenzo was founded in 2024 by Harish Singh and Partha Naidu (pictured above), both cybersecurity veterans. Harish was previously a founder and founding engineer ...

Cy4Data Labs raises $10M to expand encrypted-in-use data security solution

Data protection startup Cy4Data Labs Inc. announced today that it has raised $10 million in new funding to accelerate growth in sales and marketing. Founded in 2024, Cy4Data Labs offers a data security solution called Cy4Secure that ensures that data remains encrypted and protected not only at rest and in transit but also while in ...

Exaforce raises $75 million to scale agentic SOC platform with multi-model AI

Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised $75 million in new funding to advance its agentic SOC Platform. Founded in 2023, Exaforce is developing an agentic security operations center platform that combines artificial intelligence agents called “Exabots” with advanced data exploration. The goal is to give enterprises a tenfold reduction ...