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The cybersecurity funding bubble hasn’t burst — but it’s starting to deflate

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Last year was record-breaking for the cybersecurity market. Data from Momentum Cyber, a financial advisory firm for the security industry, showed that cybersecurity startups raised a “record-shattering” $29.5

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AI cybersecurity provider SentinelOne files for $100M IPO

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SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that helps organizations secure their data using AI and machine learning, has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ). In an S-1 filing on Thursday , the security company revealed that for the three months ending April 30, its revenues increased by 108% year-on-year to $37.4

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Talent and capital are shifting cybersecurity investors’ focus away from Silicon Valley

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William Kilmer is managing partner with C5 Capital , a venture capital fund investing in the secure data ecosystem. Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse in 2020, we received the news on the SolarWinds hack and its impact on more than 18,000 businesses and potentially dozens of U.S. However, that’s rapidly changing.

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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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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

Is your data secure? Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM BST Can data scientists discover and use the data? Can business people create reports via drag and drop? Can operations monitor what’s going on? Will the data lake scale when you have twice as much data? Navigating idle clusters and bottlenecks.

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Vanta lands $40M to automate cybersecurity compliance

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Vanta , a security compliance automation startup, today announced that it raised $40 million in an extension of its Series B funding round that closed in June, which valued the company at $1.6 Cacioppo founded Vanta in 2016 to — in her words — “help companies achieve and maintain a strong security posture.”

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HacWare lands $2.3M to expand cybersecurity awareness training

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million in seed funding to expand its cybersecurity awareness and training offering. HacWare aims to give companies an easier onramp to provide meaningful and engaging cybersecurity training to their employees that they won’t hate or that gets in the way of their day-to-day work.

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Shift Left Security? Development Does Not Want to Own It.

Speaker: Shlomo Bielak, CTO, Benchmark Corp

Shifting security left to the earliest part of development is currently in the spotlight in the developer world. What teams are now discovering is, this approach results in misdirected ownership for developers and a frustrated security team. In the current climate, we cannot afford to let security implementations falter.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

In this webinar, you will learn: The future of data security. Preparing for crises that lead to security threats. How to update existing tech stacks to optimize data security. Thursday September 10th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT. And much more!

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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7 Questions Every App Team Should Ask

In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence. Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge?

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance. Wednesday September 16th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT We are excited to be joined by Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly. March 11, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT. How do you help your engineers get on board with buying instead of building?