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Lookout sells its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure for $223M and goes all-in on the enterprise

TechCrunch

Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today that it’s selling its consumer mobile security business to Finland’s F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223 million. ” For F-Secure, the deal gives it a stronger foothold in the U.S.

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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO

By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically.

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Cloud cybersecurity startup Lumu raises a $7.5 million Series A

TechCrunch

Miami-based cybersecurity startup Lumu today announced the closing of its $7.5 So we apply the same idea with cybersecurity. Lumu launched in February 2020 at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, and already has 1,300 enterprise customers and targets small to large corporations. million Series A.

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Security vs Compliance | Hacking In To Cybersecurity

Linux Academy

Welcome back to another iteration of Hacking In To Cybersecurity! Basically what happens is we have a group of people who come together to architect some parts of a security program, usually through legislation or regulatory frameworks, that says “this is what you need to have a fully functioning security program.”

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Three U.S. Policy Recommendations to Strengthen OT Cybersecurity

Tenable

A presidential advisory committee report outlined strategies to improve government asset visibility, procurement and information sharing to enhance operational technology (OT) cybersecurity practices. I can't count how many times I've been asked, "how big is the OT cybersecurity problem?" 23, 2022, the U.S.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

January 2009: Autonomy buys enterprise content management vendor Interwoven for $775 million. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. This is hardly a surprise as the SFO has a reputation for failing to secure convictions. February 2014: HP Autonomy breaks IDOL into discrete services.

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Introducing Hack’d: A new live series deconstructing historic cyber breaches

Lacework

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a time dedicated to increased security awareness and better habits for every one of us. It’s also a stark reminder for industry professionals that preventing bad security outcomes is a full-time, year-round job that requires constant diligence and training.