SaaS

Software Security

Issued by: SecurityWeek

Financial teams of the acquisition were not released but published reports out of Israel peg the price tag as “several tens of millions of dollars.” The private equity-owned Delinea, formed in April 2012 through the merger of Centrify and Thycotic, said the deal extends its reach into the lucrative identity category and adds technology to…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Canonic Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, emerged from stealth exactly a year ago with $6 million in seed-stage venture capital funding for technology in the third-party app governance space. The publicly traded Zscaler, based in San Jose, CalifCanonic’s platform is designed to prevent expanding risks associated…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The San Jose company announced Wednesday that former Digital Guardian CEO Mordecai (Mo) Rosen will take the reins at Skybox and manage the company through a new financing round that brings the total raised to $335 million. The private equity-backed Skybox said investors in the latest round include CVC Growth Funds, Pantheon, and J.P. Morgan….

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Network management company Remote.it today announced new features for its core SaaS-based service, including support for the Okta user identification platform and Docker containers, and what it’s describing as “programmatic deployment” of zero trust networks. Essentially, the company said, the idea is to provide automated provisioning and deployment of network access to managed assetts —…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

F5 launches F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP), a cloud workload protection solution that expands application observability and protection to cloud-native infrastructures. Powered by technology acquired with Threat Stack, AIP is the newest addition to the F5 Distributed Cloud Services portfolio of cloud-native SaaS-based application security and delivery services. Organizations of all sizes across…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

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…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2013, the cloud-based External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solutions provider scans web applications for thousands of known vulnerabilities and monitors subdomains for malicious takeover. The SaaS security company has over 140 employees, but also works with ethical hackers, delivering payload-based testing to customers. Detectify claims to have more than 1,900 customers, helping them…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Twitter’s former head of security has blown the whistle on what he characterizes as sprawling cybersecurity weaknesses, including vulnerabilities that could lay the social media platform open to cyberattacks that could have major national-security implications. That’s the allegation from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who sent a 200+-page disclosure to Congress detailing issues that he claims could…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

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…