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NetSPI announced it has raised $90 million in growth funding led by KKR, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures. The investment will be used to further accelerate NetSPI’s rapid growth by expanding the company’s cyber security and client experienc… Continue reading NetSPI raises $90M to fuel innovation, growth, global expansion and product innovation
Darktrace announced that it has joined forces with Microsoft. The partnership provides mutual customers with enterprise scale, self-learning AI that detects and autonomously responds to cyber-threats. This collaboration amplifies Darktrace’s self… Continue reading Darktrace partners with Microsoft to provide autonomous response to cyber-threats
CrowdStrike announced a series of integrations with CrowdStrike Security Cloud that correlates the CrowdStrike Falcon platform’s enriched endpoint and workload telemetry with network telemetry for greater end-to-end visibility and contextual insights t… Continue reading CrowdStrike Security Cloud integrates with NDR and NTA solutions to defend against any threats
San Francisco, Thursday, January 14, 2021 – Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, has today announced that two of its core products have been designated as Marsh ‘Cyber Catalyst’ solutions. The program brings together leading cyber insurers … Continue reading Antigena Email and Enterprise Immune System Designated Marsh Cyber Catalysts 2020
Novel malware, computer code and clandestine digital access are some of the unconventional weapons various countries are currently amassing and deploying. Whether used as a force multiplier for disinformation operations, for stand-alone projections of … Continue reading Cyberwarfare: The changing role of force
Novel malware, computer code and clandestine digital access are some of the unconventional weapons various countries are currently amassing and deploying. Whether used as a force multiplier for disinformation operations, for stand-alone projections of … Continue reading Cyberwarfare: The changing role of force
The concept of “hacking back” — which has often been referred to as “the worst idea in cybersecurity” — has resurfaced again in Washington. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., is reintroducing a bill Thursday that would allow companies to go outside of their own networks to identify their attackers and possibly disrupt their activities. While Graves has made previous attempts to legalize the practice, “hacking back” would currently be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The CFAA, enacted in 1986, makes it illegal to access computers without authorization. Graves told CyberScoop the bill is necessary in part because companies are left without recourse when they are attacked. “Where do they turn — can they call 911? What do they do?” Graves said. “They have nowhere to turn.” The incentive to pass this bill, Graves says, also stems in part from the fact that there are no guidelines right now for companies that […]
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Artificial intelligence applied to information security can engender images of a benevolent Skynet, sagely analyzing more data than imaginable and making decisions at lightspeed, saving organizations from devastating attacks. In such a world, humans are barely needed to run security programs, their jobs largely automated out of existence, relegating them to a role as the […] Continue reading The right way to do AI in security
Darktrace helped pave the way for using artificial intelligence to combat malicious hacking and enterprise security breaches. Now a new UK startup founded by an ex-Darktrace executive has raised some funding to take the use of AI in cybersecurity to the next level. Senseon, which has pioneered a new model that it calls “AI triangulation” — simultaneously […] Continue reading Senseon raises $6.4M to tackle cybersecurity threats with an AI ‘triangulation’ approach
Darktrace, a company that provides AI-enabled threat detection services, said on Wednesday that it has gotten a $50 million investment in its Series E funding round. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians at the University of Cambridge, Darktrace offers a suite of products that use artificial and machine learning to protect customers’ networks from cyberthreats. Founders also include intelligence experts who came from the CIA and NSA, as well as British intelligence outfits MI5 and GCHQ. Although only in business for five years, Darktrace has earned a reputation as a big player in cyberdefense, with detection and response solutions that cover enterprise and industrial networks, cloud environments and software-as-a-service apps. The funding round was led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from existing investors KKR and 1011 Ventures. “Darktrace has built a unique combination of world-class AI capabilities, deep cyber domain expertise, and a highly effective business model. This has rapidly created […]
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