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Identity & Access
The identity security company beat quarterly expectations and raised its outlook as enterprises face growing pressure to secure AI agents and other non-human identities.
Identity & Access
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
Identity & Access
When Android users get a call from a non-contact, they will see more information about the caller, including their country.
Identity & Access
Palo Alto Networks researchers have demonstrated attacks against Google’s synced passkey implementation.
Data Breaches
Advance Auto Parts says the personal information of 2.3 million was compromised after hackers accessed its Snowflake account.
Identity & Access
Security vendor InkBridge Networks calls urgent attention to the discovery of a decades-old design flaw (CVE-2024-3596) in the popular RADIUS protocol.
Data Breaches
HubSpot is "actively investigating and blocking attempts” to hack into customer accounts but some targets have already been compromised.
Funding/M&A
Permissions management technology startup AuthZed has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst.
Cybersecurity Funding
Pomerium raises $13.75 million in Series A funding for dynamic user identity verification and access management platform.
Funding/M&A
Enterprise identity company raises new capital from JP Morgan and Hercules Capital as it prepares for an IPO exit.
Cybersecurity Funding
Entro’s platform is designed to bring order to the increasingly chaotic management of non-human identities.
Cybersecurity Funding
OT zero trust user access platform provider Xona has raised $18 million, which brings its total investment to $32 million.
Cloud Security
Cloudlfare acquires Boston seed-stage startup BastionZero to bolster its Zero Trust Network Access technology portfolio.
Identity & Access
Check Point is warning customers that threat actors are targeting insecure VPN instances for initial access to enterprise networks.
Funding/M&A
CyberArk agreed to acquire machine identity management Venafi from Thoma Bravo for $1.54 billion.
Cybersecurity Funding
Tel Aviv-based firm emerged from stealth with $7 million seed funding led by TLV Partners with participation from SNR and angel investors.
Funding/M&A
New York startup Oasis Security banks $35 million in a Series A extension round led by Accel, Cyberstarts, and Sequoia Capital.
Identity & Access
Venafi introduced a 90-Day TLS Readiness solution to help enterprises prepare for Google’s proposed 90-day limit for the lifecycle of a digital certificate.
Identity & Access
Okta warned of a spike in credential stuffing attacks using anonymizing services.
Funding/M&A
Tel Aviv startup raises $8 million in Series A funding to help developers add secure access approval flows to applications.
Identity & Access
Prominent security vendors Okta and Proofpoint announced layoffs affecting almost 1,000 employees in the United States and Israel.
Funding/M&A
Israeli late-stage startup Silverfort raises a whopping $116 million in new financing to scale its ambitions in the identity security space.
Identity & Access
Varonis finds one vulnerability and three attack methods that can be used to obtain NTLM hashes via Outlook and two Windows programs.
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For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)
The skills that get a CISO hired are rarely the skills they are judged on later. Most security leaders are stuck in that gap. Closing it is the real job.
(Sravish Sridhar)
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.
(Joshua Goldfarb)