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Identity and access management giant Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) late Wednesday announced plans buy rival Auth0 in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $6.5 billion.
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Artificial Intelligence
The company provides a standard for AI systems, testing them against risks such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, and unauthorized actions.
Cybersecurity Funding
The company will use the new capital to expand its vulnerability operations platform and support international growth.
Cybersecurity Funding
The cybersecurity startup is building a proprietary foundation model and plans to accelerate global expansion.
Data Protection
Financials have not been disclosed, but the estimated cost is in the tens of millions of dollars.
Compliance
TripleBlind, a Kansas City, Missouri-based startup that provides data privacy solutions, on Monday announced raising $8.2 million in seed funding.
M&A Tracker
Many cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in February 2021, including by Akamai, Proofpoint, SentinelOne, Tenable, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks.
Cybersecurity Funding
IT asset management company Axonius has raised $100 million in Series D funding, the company told SecurityWeek Sunday. Led by private equity firm Stripes,...
Cybersecurity Funding
HYAS, a Victoria, Canada-based provider of threat intelligence based on adversary infrastructure, announced this week that it has closed a $16 million Series B...
Application Security
Cybercrime
Silicon Valley-based venture capital giant Sequoia Capital said the recently disclosed data breach was apparently the result of a business email compromise (BEC) attack...
Cybersecurity Funding
Looking to take advantage of a growing global market for its bot protection technologies, PerimeterX has banked a new $57 million round of venture...
M&A Tracker
Several cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced in the third week of February 2021.
Cybersecurity Funding
Platform Leverages Biometric and Blockchain Technology to Verify Identities
Application Security
Cybersecurity Funding
New Jersey-based access governance company SPHERE on Thursday announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round.
Cybersecurity Funding
Red Canary, a Denver, Colo.-based managed detection and response (MDR) firm, has raised $81 million through a Series C founding round led by Summit...
Application Security
DevSecOps company Spectral on Wednesday emerged from stealth mode with $6.2 million in seed funding from Israeli venture capital firms Amiti and MizMaa.
Application Security
Palo Alto Networks on Tuesday snapped up early-stage startup Bridgecrew, adding a cloud security platform for developers to its $3.4 billion-a-year enterprise product portfolio.The...
Cloud Security
Strata Identity, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup that is on a mission to help unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for multi-cloud environments,...
Funding/M&A
Several cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in the second week of February 2021.
M&A Tracker
Famed “Shark Tank” investor and cybersecurity entrepreneur Robert Herjavec found himself on the other side of the negotiating table recently, and has agreed to...
Compliance
Arlington, Va.-based data privacy management company WireWheel on Wednesday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.
Cybersecurity Funding
Autonomous vehicle security solutions provider AUTOCRYPT this week announced that it raised another $13 million in its Series A funding round, which brings the...
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