The report from Israeli publisher Globes that CrowdStrike plans to spend $2 billion buying one or more Israeli cybersecurity companies sent shockwaves through the industry. Here's a look at six security startups with a large presence in Israel that could be a good fit for CrowdStrike.
Human and PerimeterX will join forces to prevent fraud and account abuse and address a broader range of use cases. The combination will create a bot mitigation monster with 450 employees, more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue and more than 500 customers across media and e-commerce.
The cybersecurity of devices that use semiconductors is imperative in today's digital world, says Prathap R. This security industry veteran, who has 16 years of experience in semiconductors, discusses how IoT security has evolved over the past two decades.
Michael Alan Stollery, the chief executive of Titanium Blockchain, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to securities fraud in a scheme involving a fraudulent cryptocurrency initial coin offering in which $21 million was stolen. Stollery faces up to 20 years of imprisonment.
Big, bad bugs - including the likes of Heartbleed, BlueKeep and Drupalgeddon - never seem to burn out. Instead, they just slowly fade away, despite the risk that attackers will successfully exploit them to steal data, seize control of systems or deploy ransomware.
A music streaming blockchain service patched a bug on a smart contract that had gone undetected since 2020. An attacker used it to steal $AUDIO crypto tokens worth nearly $6 million and sold them for more than $1 million. The vulnerability wasn't detected by multiple smart contracts security audits.
Nascent startups have ditched the "growth at all costs" mantra of 2021 to hold onto enough cash to weather the macroeconomic storm expected later this year. Gone are the days of security vendors promising to double annual sales while burning cash even faster than they bring in new business.
Exploring new ways to offer security as a service from his organization to external customers is an exciting challenge and opportunity, says Sean Mack, CIO and CISO of publishing company Wiley. He also discusses aligning security investments with the company's biggest business risks and goals.
Getting cybersecurity right means CISOs need peer relationships with other operations executives. CISOs need board access and a handle on the company business, writes Ian Keller, director of security at a telecom company. "And then you'll wake up and realize this is not as simple as it sounds."
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed its first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency markets, marking an escalation of traditional oversight. The case comes as a federal jury convicted a New York man for defrauding investors who bought into his supposed cryptocurrency.
Halborn raised $90 million to expand its audit and penetration testing services and more effectively safeguard the crypto industry. The proceeds will bolster its protection for cryptocurrency lending protocols and better defend the money flowing into and out of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Premint NFT platform users became victims last weejend of one of the biggest NFT attacks ever. The company says an open-source vulnerability led to the compromise of its website, resulting in its users losing about $500,000 worth of blockchain assets.
The company ePlus has purchased Future Com to strengthen its security operations strategy and support of managed services. The deal will allow ePlus to help customers evolve their security operations teams from correlating and analyzing logs to delivering advanced capabilities like threat hunting.
A new assessment framework aims to help patients, healthcare providers and others examine the various privacy, security and other risks of digital health technologies, says Tim Andrews of the nonprofit Organization for the Review of Care and Health Applications, which co-developed the framework.
Bishop Fox has closed a $75 million funding round to strengthen its visibility and continuous testing capabilities across all service offerings. The company will go from having just its attack surface testing on the Cosmos platform to all service offerings, including app pen testing and red teaming.
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