Breach simulation startup AttackIQ raises $44M to fuel growth

Breach simulation startup AttackIQ raises $44M to fuel growth

AttackIQ, a cybersecurity start-up that offers companies with breach and attack simulation services, has actually raised $44 million in Series C financing as it aims to ramp up its international expansion. The financing round was led by Atlantic Bridge, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) and Gaingels, with existing suppliers– including Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce […] AttackIQ was founded in 2013 and is based out of San Diego, California. AttackIQ states this most current round of financing, which comes more than two years after its last, gets here at a “dynamic time” for the business. “AttackIQ has actually developed itself as a classification leader with a powerful business client base that includes 4 of the Fortune 20,” said Dillon.

Decrypted: With more SolarWinds fallout, Biden picks his cybersecurity team

Decrypted: With more SolarWinds fallout, Biden picks his cybersecurity team

All modification in the capital as the Biden administration takes charge, and thankfully without a drawback( or violence)after the tried insurrection two weeks earlier. In this week’s Decrypted, we take a look at the continuous fallout from the SolarWinds breach and who the incoming president wishes to lead the course to healing. Plus, the news in […]
Plus, the news in brief. It was the exact same opponents as SolarWinds however using a various intrusion path. …

Chronicle’s ex-CSO is starting a new company he does not want you to understand much about

Chronicle’s ex-CSO is starting a new company he does not want you to understand much about

Mike Wiacek is back with a new business, a year after leaving his function as primary gatekeeper at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company. Wiacek invested 13 years at Google, founding the company’s Danger Analysis Group, a system committed to countering federal government and state-backed hacking efforts, and likewise co-founding Chronicle, which was rolled into Google […]
Chronicle’s ex-CSO is starting a new company he doesn’t desire you to know much about …

Decrypted: Contact-tracing privacy, Zoom buys Keybase, Microsoft eyes CyberX

Decrypted: Contact-tracing privacy, Zoom buys Keybase, Microsoft eyes CyberX

As the world aims to reopen after weeks of lockdown, federal governments are turning to get in touch with tracing to comprehend the spread of the deadly coronavirus. A lot of countries are leaning toward privacy-focused apps that use Bluetooth signals to create an anonymous profile of where a person has been and when. Some, like Israel, are bucking the pattern […] Some of the most significant European economies– Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland– are constructing apps that work with Apple and Google’s contact-tracing API. Even Keybase, a service that lets users keep and manage their encryption secrets, acknowledged its uncertain future. Where does Keybase, mostly a customer product, fit into the fray? …