Austin, Texas-based Passage this week announced that it has emerged from stealth mode with $4 million in funding and a public beta version of its biometric user authentication platform for developers.
Cloudflare Launches Public Bug Bounty Program
Web performance and security services provider Cloudflare this week announced that its bug bounty program is now open to all vulnerability hunters on HackerOne.
FBI Warns of Potential Cyberattacks Targeting 2022 Winter Olympics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday announced the release of a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn entities associated with the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic games of potential cyberattacks targeting them.
Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: Applying Lessons From The Mayo Clinic to Cybersecurity
I have previously written about how much the Mayo Clinic impacted my life through my experience and time there. In that article I discussed their approach to multi-disciplinary patient triaging and how looking at patients as a whole, rather than a system of discrete systems, helps them to make the right decisions.
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 31 Deals Announced in January 2022
More than 30 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in January 2022.
CISA Adds Recent iOS, SonicWall Vulnerabilities to ‘Must Patch’ List
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week announced the addition of eight more vulnerabilities to the list of security flaws known to be exploited in malicious attacks.
Cyber Insights 2022: Improving Criminal Sophistication
CISA’s ‘Must Patch’ List Puts Spotlight on Vulnerability Management Processes
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities can be useful not only for helping organizations patch high-risk vulnerabilities in their systems, but also to help them build or improve vulnerability management processes.
Network Security Firm Portnox Raises $22 Million in Series A Funding
Cloud-native network and endpoint security solutions provider Portnox on Thursday announced raising $22 million in a Series A funding round.
HackerOne Bags $49 Million in Series E Funding
Hacker-powered bug bounty platform HackerOne on Thursday announced that it has received $49 million in Series E investment, which brings the total raised by the company to $160 million.
The funding round was led by GP Bullhound and received participation from Benchmark, Dragoneer Investment Group, NEA, and Valor Equity Partners.