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Living Security raises $14M for predictive human risk management

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Cybersecurity training is one of those things that everyone has to do but not something everyone necessarily looks forward to. Living Security is an Austin-based startup out to change cybersecurity training something you look forward to, not dread. The cybersecurity industry needs to reinvent itself.

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box , which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 Started in 2017, Hack The Box specializes in using “ethical hacking” to train cybersecurity techniques. It will use the funding to expand. Most recently it launched Hack The Box Academy.

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Behavioral cybersecurity platform CybSafe raises $28M Series B led by Evolution Equity Partners

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cybersecurity startup CybSafe , a “behavioral security” platform, raised a $7.9 This SaaS product with a per-user-based, subscription licensing model has a “behavior-led” platform that manages people-related security. In other words, it uses behavioral science and data analytics to help employees be more cybersecurity aware.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

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Since the average friends and family round is $23,000, “they’d need to secure the entire liquid wealth of six Black families” for parity, according to a white paper by venture fund Fifth Star. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

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From individual security professionals to companies, this means adopting a ‘hacker mindset’, learning to think and act like an attacker. HTB is in one of the categories that is continuing to see attention, not least because security breaches certainly have not slowed down with the rest of the economy.

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The how and why of raising OT security capital

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Last year was huge for the cybersecurity market, fueled by rising incidents of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware that disrupted services and held companies hostage. As new types of attacks arise, security vendors respond with new tools in what has become a cat-and-mouse game. supporting Ukraine in the Russian invasion.