TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

CIOs rank AI as a top priority alongside cybersecurity for IT departments. However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. Today’s CIOs are working in a tornado of innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Generative AI reminds me of ball bearings: the technology is relatively inexpensive, highly adaptable and a proven way to reduce friction. Investors have taken notice: CB Insights reports that VCs poured $49 billion into AI last year, a 40% jump from the year before. What’s wrong with the way they are currently solving this problem?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

As TechCrunch reported earlier today , Carta is suing its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on December 23, according to the company. Current and former Carta employees can reach out to Natasha Mascarenhas on Signal, a secure encrypted messaging app, at 925 271 0912.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And the White House seeks to boost ports' cybersecurity. This week, cybersecurity agencies from multiple countries, led by the Cyber Division of the U.K.’s government has released a fact sheet with security measures these facilities should take as soon as possible. And much more!

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

Often considered a tech guru of the company or the smartest programmer in the room, the title of CTO alone indicates that the company is doing something big with technology. With this article, we’ll dip a toe into the field of the multiple responsibilities of an average CTO. The role of CTO.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Security — on a budget Security is a challenge that makes the list of top CIO worries perennially, but Grant McCormick, CIO of cybersecurity company Exabeam, notes a rising need for increased collaboration between IT and security teams to address the issue. “Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The most pressing responsibilities for CIOs in 2024 will include security, cost containment, and cultivating a data-first mindset.” Consequently, CIOs must keep cybersecurity and implementation of zero-trust principles as key priorities. Here, we detail those and others that comprise eight of the top priorities for CIOs in 2024.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. increase from 2021.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Then in December, it secured $400 million in credit facilities from Goldman Sachs and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). A company spokesperson told me via email: “Program admins will be able to ask Ava for reporting across the travel and spend programs, whether that is via text, graph, PDF, etc. billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5

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Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. 1, 2022 to Oct. 1, 2022 to Oct.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But while the cloud provides more flexible and scalable IT services, it’s also introducing new and vexing challenges around cyber security. The recent attacks on NFPs would seem to highlight many of the security risks being posed by the migration to the cloud.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives. With CIOs now often reporting directly to the CEO instead of the CFO, the emphasis has shifted from technical proficiency to business acumen.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. The company reports it has now raised $290 million. 12 top cybersecurity VCs discuss investing, valuations and no-go zones.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As we bid adieu to 2023, we highlight major trends that impacted cybersecurity professionals in the past 12 months. Learn how the cyber world changed in areas including artificial intelligence, CNAPP, IAM security, government oversight and OT security. Cybersecurity teams were no exception.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2014

Our site CISOtech.com is a repository of articles and information of interest to enterprise security professionals. Any reporting we do here at CTOvision that has relevance for the CISO is archived at that site, plus evaluations on cyber security technologies of interest. Please sign up for this report here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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Sailpoint

JULY 11, 2019

Walsh announced Greg McCarthy’s appointment as the city’s first chief information security officer (CISO). McCarthy will lead the cybersecurity team within the Department of Innovation and Technology. The city’s cybersecurity program is now ten years old, and I have been a part of it for nine.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a PwC report , one in three consumers (32%) say they will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience. Leveraging the right set of technologies will be a key success criterion for such apps. Security should be incorporated from the earliest stages of app development to minimize risk, time, and costs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

According to Salt Labs, the research division of Salt Security (which sells API cybersecurity products, granted), API attacks from March 2021 to March 2022 increased nearly 681%. Bansal saw the writing on the wall four years ago, he said, when he cofounded San Francisco-based Traceable with CTO Sanjay Nagaraj.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

News broke this morning that Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners are purchasing Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop. Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit. Securities and Exchange Commission last week announcing its intent to become a public company. Walter Thompson.

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Lacework

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With easy access to chat functionality like ChatGPT and natural language processing (NLP), people now have the power to generate anything from recipes and poems to research reports and code — all in a matter of seconds. Now, it’s clear that cybersecurity leaders need help addressing the skills gap and better ways to simplify cloud security.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Depending upon which research report you read, we have a shortage of somewhere around 3.4 4 The cybersecurity industry, however, is in a fortunate position because we have the opportunity to mitigate the impact of the talent shortage through actions, we take both as a community and as individual organizations. million or 3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

According to a Gartner’s report , about 75% of compliance leaders say they still lack the confidence to effectively run and report on program outcomes despite the added scrutiny on data privacy and protection and newly added regulations over the last several years. Image Credits: anecdotes.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1%

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 10, 2024

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a weekly blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42 with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

This demand for skilled IT workers is reflected in the rising average salaries of certain job titles as companies compete for top talent, according to data from the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. As demand for this role has grown, salaries for MIS managers have increased by 11% since 2021, according to Dice.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The security of your software supply chain is vital to ensuring application security. For nine straight years, Sonatype’s State of Software Supply Chain Security Report has analyzed the challenges associated with protecting your software supply chain from attack and has provided advice and guidance on improving it.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They collected their findings in a report titled The Sustainable CTO. And four out of five of those surveyed pointed to innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) as specific technologies that could help. Read the research report. IT Leadership

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today, Haje has mostly been reading the most recent IPCC report and gobbling anti-anxiety meds by the fistful, while Christine was talking and writing all day. Geopolitics of Space : Guest columnist Raquel Jorge argues we should keep an eye on what’s happening in the great inky beyond when it comes to safety and security. Incredible.

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