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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

Cybersecurity cannot stand still, or the waves of innovation will overrun the shores. Multifactor authentication fatigue and biometrics shortcomings Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a popular technique for strengthening the security around logins. Cybersecurity budgets are typically caught between these two forces.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Get the Latest on Deepfake Threats, Open Source Risks, AI System Security and Ransomware Gangs

Tenable

Tasked with securing your org’s new AI systems? Plus, open source security experts huddled at a conference this week – find out what they talked about. That’s the topic of the paper “ Securing AI: Similar or Different? Check out a new Google paper with tips and best practices. And much more!

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Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev to help companies authenticate users without passwords

TechCrunch

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software. The password problem. Image Credits: Passwordless.dev.

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From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M to build a protocol that helps open source developers get paid

TechCrunch

Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea. From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services

TechCrunch

Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a different tech stack. But one factor in Otterize’s favor is the heightened spending on cybersecurity, particularly in the enterprise.

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Smallstep takes big step toward authenticating machine-to-machine communications

TechCrunch

The central issue is that when there are no humans involved, how do you authenticate the hand-off between machines to ensure it’s going to the right place? The company launched in 2016 and launched their first open source product a couple of years ago. “The open source piece is the core technology.