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Cyber insurance firm Cowbell Cyber boosts security for Microsoft customers
Cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. has announced the Cowbell Connector for Microsoft, enabling policyholders to manage cyber risk proactively within their Microsoft environments. Cowbell said the connector provides its customers with more direct visibility into the deployment of security best practices on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud, along with real-time recommendations to improve any weaknesses ...
SaaS app security startup Atmosec exits stealth with $6M seed funding round
Software-as-a-service security Atmosec Ltd. is launching out of stealth mode today armed with $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners and Battery Ventures. Additional funds also came from a number of cybersecurity industry veterans, including Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, co-founders of device security platform Armis Security Inc., Assaf ...
Sysdig targets ‘unprecedented opportunity’ in container security after bagging $350M in late-stage funding
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. raised another bumper funding round today. This time, it has bagged $350 million through a Series G round that brings its value to $2.5 billion. Permira’s growth fund led the round with participation from new investor Guggenheim Partners and existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, DFJ Growth, Glynn Capital, Goldman Sachs, ...
Fugue enables consistent security policy enforcement across clouds
Cloud infrastructure management provider Fugue Inc. wants to provide enterprises with more control over their cloud computing environments and the applications they host. The new Fugue Organization Management service, announced today, helps enterprises put cloud security into operation across the entire organization, allowing them to scale those resources safely through policy-based automation, the company explained. ...
MLCommons releases open-source datasets for training speech recognition models
The MLCommons Association, a nonprofit consortium that aims to improve machine learning for the public good, today announced the release of two key new datasets that it says can be leverage by organizations to develop superior artificial intelligence models. The consortium said the People’s Speech Dataset is one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of English ...
Cyberhaven raises $33M to grow its data detection-based security platform
Data detection and response platform provider Cyberhaven Inc. is pushing to disrupt the world of data security after landing $33 million in an oversubscribed funding round today. The Series B round brings its total amount raised to $52 million to date. Redpoint Ventures led the round with participation from new investors Forgepoint Capital and Wing, ...
SnapLogic raises $165M to accelerate enterprise automation via data integration
Enterprise automation firm SnapLogic Inc. today revealed it has raised $165 million in a funding round led by Sixth Street Growth, taking its valuation to $1 billion. SnapLogic, which previously raised $72 million in a Series G round of funding in October 2019, said the new funds will augment that venture-backed war chest and help it ...
AWS explains last week’s cloud outage and promises to improve its status page
Amazon Web Services Inc. said this weekend that it will make changes to its cloud Service Health Dashboard in the wake of a major outage last week that took multiple connected services, including financial apps and food delivery platforms, offline for several hours. In a report on the impact of the event last Friday, Amazon ...
Chipmaker Broadcom delivers another strong quarter and its stock climbs
Computer chipmaker Broadcom Inc. made impressive gains today, its stock up more than 6% in after-hours trading following fourth-quarter financial results that beat analysts’ targets. The company followed that with an outlook for the next quarter that was higher too. Broadcom reported a net profit for the quarter of $1.98 billion, or $7.81 per share, on ...
With strong cloud revenue growth, Oracle easily beats earnings targets
Updated: Oracle Corp. shares rose more than 10% in extended trading today after the database giant beat second-quarter earnings forecasts, driven by solid growth in its infrastructure and applications cloud businesses. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.21 per share, up 14% from a year ago, while revenue ...
