Identity & Access

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Take a moment to consider how frequently you authenticate your identity online: checking your email, logging in to your bank account, accessing cloud-based productivity tools, booking a flight, paying your taxes. We confirm our identities so many times every day that things like providing personally identifiable information and confirming a login attempt through our smartphones…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

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…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The funding round – which included $3.5 million Seed and $11.5 million Series A investments – was co-led by .406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Founded in 2019, the Boston-based firm provides enterprises with an identity-centric platform that offers visibility and control over the identity attack surface, helping them secure both employees and contractors…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The investment round was led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Accel, Heavybit, Uncork Capital, and angel investors. Founded in 2019, the Toronto-based company offers a WireGuard-based private network connectivity solution with zero-config and end-to-end encryption, which integrates with services such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta, Caddy Server, Syncthing, and…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Led by Tiger Global and Alkeon, the latest funding round values the company at $1.5 billion. Veriff says that its video-first technology leverages more than 1,000 data points and an AI-powered decision engine that can analyze more than 10,000 variations of government-issued IDs from over 190 countries in 40 different languages. The company claims that…

Application Security, Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

Launched to the public in 2013, iProov helps customers verify customer identity and protect against spoof attacks from photos, videos, masks, and even deepfakes. Used for onboarding and authentication, iProov says customers including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the UK Home Office, the UK National Health Service (NHS), the Australian Taxation Office, GovTech Singapore,…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The funding round was led by New York-based Insight Partners, with participation from all previous investors, including Itai Tsiddon and Viola Ventures. Founded in 2014, the Tel Aviv-based PlainID provides organizations with a policy-based authorization solution that seeks to bring together IAM and cybersecurity with a real-time decision engine, all in a single, intuitive interface….

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Acuant is based in California and it specializes in identity verification and Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of the month, will help GBG further expand into the United States. GBG says Acuant’s product suite complements the services provided by its US-based…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

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…