article thumbnail

Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies.

article thumbnail

Cybersecurity startup Guardio, now with 1M users of its browser extension, raises its first funding: $47M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

The browser extension doesn’t impact on a computer’s or an internet connection’s latency, nor does it “just sit in the background,” CEO Amos Peled said in an interview. That number increases over time, it seems, as the system learns more.). “We want to give advice and help to our users.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

If you want to channel those feelings into getting safer in 2018, follow these seven steps, garnered from how-tos we’ve published this year, to better secure your digital life. If you can, segment your home Internet of Things devices on a separate network as well. Step 1: Use two-factor authentication. Step 2: Use a VPN.

article thumbnail

A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Below is an edited version of my take on the internet’s most notable BGP incidents.

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 2nd, 2018

High Scalability

— James O'Malley (@Psythor) October 29, 2018. Simon Wistow : Observability goes beyond monitoring, enabling the proactive introspection of distributed systems for greater operational visibility. The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." — William Gibson. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. cpeterso : Your quote reminds me of cybernetics' Law of Requisite Variety: "If a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system being controlled.".

article thumbnail

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 21st, 2018

High Scalability

Aria Bracci : Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. Too often, those who already hold power, those who are least able to recognize the flaws in our current systems, are the ones who decide our technological future. More quotes.