Bearer, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018, has received a $4 million investment from Kima Ventures, Partech and Point Nine, bringing the total raised by the company to $8 million. The startup’s data security SaaS solution helps organizations identify technical and business logic flaws in code during the development cycle, and ensure data security…

The new funding round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, with additional investment from Bess Ventures, Citi Ventures, Stanford University, World Trade Ventures, and angel investors. Founded in 2016, the Rockville, Maryland-based firm provides physical layer-based asset risk management capabilities, helping organizations deal with known and shadow IT assets at any scale. Basically, Sepio helps…

The funding round was led by AlbionVC, with participation from Forward Partners, Gapminder, Innovate UK, and TriplePoint Capital. Founded in 2019, the London, UK-based company proposes a new approach to security awareness training. The company’s SaaS solution helps organizations identify and manage human risk, to improve employee behavior. The platform combines human intelligence with data…

Axio believes the threat is not the risk – the risk is the business impact of the threat. For most firms, the greater part of cybersecurity effort and budget is targeted at mitigating threats rather than managing risk. While mitigating threats is important, it alone is not true risk management; and is repeatedly demonstrated to…

Security teams should prepare for what researchers say will be a challenging environment through 2023, with increased pressure from government regulators, partners, and threat actors. Gartner kicked off its Security & Risk Management Summit with the release of its analysts’ assessments of the work ahead, which Richard Addiscott, the company’s senior director analyst, discussed during…

Motorola described the Public Safety Threat Alliance (PSTA) as an information sharing and analysis organization (ISAO) and noted that it’s recognized by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which serves as its National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. The PSTA is open to all public safety agencies. Its role is to…