Data Protection

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The funding round was led by Princeville Capital and RPS Ventures, with additional participation from existing investors, including Sequoia Capital. Based in San Jose, California, Versa Networks platform is available via both the cloud and on-premises, helping enterprises keep branches, teleworkers, and users securely connected to cloud applications and data centers. A software-only offering, Versa…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The round was led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital, with participation from Accenture Ventures, as well as individual investors Tom Gonser, founder of DocuSign; Omkhar Arasarathnam, engineering director at Google Cloud; Bob Gleichauf, EVP at InQTel and ex-CTO at Cisco; David Tsao, VP of security engineering at Marqeta; and Sameer Sait, CISO at Amazon…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The project, called D3FEND, is available through the non-profit Mitre Corporation as a catalog of defensive cybersecurity techniques and their relationships to offensive/adversary techniques. The primary goal of the initial D3FEND release is to help standardize the vocabulary used to describe defensive cybersecurity technology functionality. Mitre described D3FEND as an “early stage experimental research project”…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Week

Google announced end-to-end encryption is now available in Android, but only for one-on-one conversations between users of the Messages app. “No matter who you’re messaging with, the information you share is personal. End-to-end encryption in Messages helps keep your conversations more secure while sending. It ensures that no one can read the content of your…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Google’s collaboration and productivity solution was already encrypting data, both when at rest and in transit, but the new feature is meant to provide additional control and ease of mind over the security of data. In addition to increasing the confidentiality of data, the feature also helps customers meet sovereignty and compliance requirements, as it…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

42Crunch provides an application programming interface (API) ‘micro firewall’. APIs are a serious and growing threat vector. In 2019, Gartner stated, “By 2022, API abuses will move from an infrequent to the most-frequent attack vector, resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications.” Its proposed solution was, “Use a Combination of API Management and Web…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The funding, which brings the total raised by the company to more than $400 million, was led by CVC Capital Partners VII. Acronis announced achieving “unicorn” status in 2019 after raising $147 million. The money raised in the latest funding round will be invested in sales, staff resources, R&D, and to expand its product portfolio…