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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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For startups, trustworthy security means going above and beyond compliance standards

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Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital , where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. He was previously chief information security officer at a SaaS company and a public financial institution. So why is compliance alone not enough?

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The Importance of Security and Compliance in Enterprise Applications

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However, as more organizations rely on these applications, the need for enterprise application security and compliance measures is becoming increasingly important. Breaches in security or compliance can result in legal liabilities, reputation damage, and financial losses.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

In the fast-evolving world of finance, data security is of paramount importance. Financial institutions must ensure the protection of sensitive personal information, most commonly payment card data, to maintain, trust and meet various regulatory requirements.

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What is GRC? The rising importance of governance, risk, and compliance

CIO

As a result, managing risks and ensuring compliance to rules and regulations along with the governing mechanisms that guide and guard the organization on its mission have morphed from siloed duties to a collective discipline called GRC. What is GRC? GRC is overarching.

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Connecting the dots on diversity in cybersecurity recruitment

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Mandy Andress is the chief information security officer at Elastic , an enterprise search company, and has more than 25 years of experience in information risk management and security. In its Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2021 , industry body (ISC) 2 found that 2.7 Mandy Andress. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Laika laps up $50M for its automated security compliance platform

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Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust with their users, but of how organizations work together these days: fail to meet the requirements of these frameworks, and you might lose your business relationship.