The U.S. government’s mandates around the creation and delivery of SBOMs (software bill of materials) to help mitigate supply chain attacks has run into strong objections from big-name technology vendors.
Investors Pour $200M Into Compliance Automation Startup Drata
High-flying security compliance and automation startup Drata continues to attract major venture capital investor interest, banking $200 million in Series C funding that values the company north of $2 billion.
Balance Theory Scores Seed Funding for Secure Workspace Collaboration
Balance Theory, a seed-stage startup working on technology to help security teams collaborate and manage data flows securely, has closed a $3 million funding round.
The Columbia, Maryland-based Balance Theory said the early-stage investment was led by DataTribe with participation from TEDCO.
Investors Double Down on Pangea Cyber API Security Bet
Pangea Cyber, an early stage startup working on technology in the API security services space, has banked $26 million in a new funding round led by Google Ventures.
One Year Later: Log4Shell Remediation Slow, Painful Slog
Almost exactly a year after the Log4Shell security crisis sent defenders scrambling to reduce attack surfaces, new data shows that remediation has been a long, slow, painful slog for most organizations around the world.
Investors Bet $31 Million on Sphere for Identity Hygiene Tech
Venture capital investors have invested another $31 million into Sphere Technology Solutions, a New Jersey startup building technology to help defenders manage identities and access to sensitive data.
Project Zero Flags ‘Patch Gap’ Problems on Android
Vulnerability researchers at Google Project Zero are calling attention to the ongoing “patch-gap” problem in the Android ecosystem, warning that downstream vendors continue to be tardy at delivering security fixes to Android-powered devices.
Proofpoint: Watch Out for Nighthawk Hacking Tool Abuse
Security researchers at Proofpoint are calling attention to the discovery of a commercial red-teaming tool called Nighthawk, warning that the command-and-control framework is likely to be abused by threat actors.
Leaked Algolia API Keys Exposed Data of Millions of Users
Threat detection firm CloudSEK has identified thousands of applications leaking Algolia API keys, and tens of applications with hardcoded admin secrets, which could allow attackers to steal the data of millions of users.
US Gov Issues Software Supply Chain Security Guidance for Customers
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) this week released the last part of a three-part joint guidance on securing the software supply chain.












