New security startups, Stamos and Krebs go to SentinelOne, NY takes cyber seriously – ESW #340
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
- Lots of new security startups with early stage funding
- SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos’s consulting firm
- PE firm picks up ActiveState - a company I haven’t thought about since I last downloaded ActiveState Perl 1000 years ago
- Microsoft announces the limited release of Security Copilot
- Semgrep releases a secrets scanner
- AGI predicted to come much sooner than you might expect
- NY State doubles down on cybersecurity regulations to protect its hospitals
- the young hackers behind Mirai, one of the biggest botnets ever
- Ransomware groups snitch on businesses to the SEC
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Adrian Sanabria
Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative
- 1. FUNDING: Vulcan Cyber Closes $55 Million Series B with Additional $34 Million to Solidify Position as a Leader in Cyber Risk Management
- 2. FUNDING: Securing Our Vision: The $6.4M Seed Funding Milestone
- 3. FUNDING: Risk Ledger Secures £6.25M to Prevent Cyber Attacks on the Supply Chains of Nation’s Largest Enterprises
- 4. FUNDING: Myrror Security Raises $6M in Seed Funding
- 5. FUNDING: Tidal Cyber Raises $5M in Seed Funding
- 6. FUNDING: HydroX AI: Building a One-Stop Platform for LLM Security and Privacy
- 7. FUNDING: Protecto Raises $4M in Seed Funding
- 8. FUNDING: Attack Surface Management Technology Provider Cavelo Announces CAD$5M Funding Round
- 9. ACQUISITIONS: SentinelOne® Launches PinnacleOne Strategic Advisory Group
SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos's consulting firm, Krebs Stamos Group LLC, rebranding it as PinnacleOne (redundant?) Strategic Advisory Group
- 10. ACQUISITIONS: Vertu Capital Acquires Secure Open Source Integration Platform Company, ActiveState
- 11. DIVESTITURES: ThreatDown: A new chapter for Malwarebytes
- 12. NEW PRODUCTS: Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security for AI at Microsoft Ignite
- 13. NEW PRODUCTS: Introducing Semgrep Secrets
- 14. ESSAYS: Why We’ll Have AGI by 2025-2028
TL;DR - Daniel's theory is that AGI won't first emerge as a single packaged product, but will be the product of many smaller AI products integrated together.
- 15. ESSAYS: As cars hoover up more and more drivers’ data, is it time to regulate the industry?
- 16. REGULATIONS: New York State Cybersecurity Strategy
- 17. REGULATIONS: New York State Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies
- 18. REGULATIONS: Governor Hochul Announces Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals Throughout New York State
- 19. INVESTIGATIONS: The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
- 20. VULNERABILITIES: In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack
- 21. SQUIRREL: Are ransomware groups using the SEC as leverage now?
Ransomware group hacks public company... then turns them into the SEC for not reporting the breach within the new required timelimit???
Tyler Shields
VP Traceable.ai, Cyber Angel Investor and Advisor at 90 Degree Ventures
