The latest financing was led by WestCap, with additional investment from Dave DeWalt’s NightDragon. It comes exactly one year after the company (previously known White Ops) was acquired by the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division. HUMAN Security sells technology capable of differentiating between bots and human transactions on the internet, protecting enterprises from fraudulent e-commerce…

Eighteen cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced December 1-12, 2021. Acclaim Technical Services acquires Entegra Systems Acclaim Technical Services (ATS), which specializes in operational support, language, and technology services, has acquired cyber technology solutions provider Entegra Systems. Both companies are US-based government contractors, and the acquisition of Entegra, which provides services to defense and intelligence agencies, will…

The company is building a Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) product that is being positioned as a new class of security processors that provide platform root-of-trust for large enterprise customers. Axiado, which employs approximately 40 in Silicon Valley, said the $25 million Series B investment brings the total raised to $40 million. The round was led…

Following the massive infusion of cash, investors are valuing the company at $8.3 billion. San Francisco, California-based Lacework was founded in 2015 by Mike Speiser (managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures) Sanjay Kalra (now founder and CEO at ShiftRight), and Vikram Kapoor (CTO). It was built on the principal that cloud security is fundamentally a…

Ransomware actors are known for performing extensive research prior to launching an attack on victims, using publicly available information, along with material non-public data. Should the victim refrain from paying the ransom, the attackers threaten to disclose the gathered information publicly, thus attempting to extort the victim, the FBI warned. “Ransomware actors are targeting companies…

In the SolarWinds incident, up to 18,000 companies could have received the malware injected into the SolarWinds software. Not all could have been affected. Many of these ‘victims’ did not install the infected version, and many others did so on servers with no internet connectivity. Of those companies that did receive the Nobelium Sunburst malware,…

Conducted in Tel Aviv, the researcher’s experiment showed just how easy an attacker could hack into home and enterprise networks, by simply walking around a city with the right equipment in hand. For his experiment, CyberArk’s Ido Hoorvitch used an AWUS036ACH ALFA Network card, which costs around $50, and provides both monitoring and packet injection…