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Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok might be under fire from US politicians but it’s not going to go down without a fight. Continue reading TikTok owner to separate company over US national security worries
Immersive Labs, a cybersecurity skills platform, has raised $40 million in its Series B, the company’s second round of funding this year following an $8 million Series A in January. Summit Partners led the fundraise with Goldman Sachs participating, the Bristol, U.K.-based company confirmed. Immersive, led by former GCHQ cybersecurity instructor James Hadley, helps corporate […] Continue reading Cyber-skills platform Immersive Labs raises $40M in North America expansion
US lawmakers asked intelligence to look into whether the app and others like it could pose a security threat or be used to influence opinion. Continue reading TikTok says no, senators, we’re not under China’s thumb
Critical cyber attacks on both businesses and individuals have been grabbing headlines at an alarming rate. Cybersecurity has moved from a background risk for enterprises to a critical day-to-day threat to business operations, forcing executive teams to pour time and hundreds of billions in capital into monitoring and prevention efforts. Yet even as investment in […] Continue reading Arceo.ai raises $37 million to expand cyber insurance coverage and access
The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Bureau of Industry and Commerce (BIC) has added 17 organizations from 11 countries to its “entity list,” citing national security concerns. Presence on the list means the organization or enterprise i… Continue reading Commerce Bureau Pegs More National Security Risks
via the erudite Bruce Schneier, this time writing for Foreign Policy Magazine, comes a prescription to countermand Information Operations, specifically when aimed at our elections. Today’s Must Read.
‘Influence operations are elusive to define. The R… Continue reading Pieces of Eight, A Prescription
via Andy Greenberg, comes a particularly troubling piece, written for Wired, in which, Mr. Greenberg details the litany of ineptitude by Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) in securing their code running the company’s 787 airframe. Deeply troubling is the opera… Continue reading Boeing – Say It Ain’t So…
Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources, has raised $200 million in new financing from SoftBank Group and its affiliates. It’s a sign of the belief that SoftBank has in the technology, since the Japanese investment firm is basically doubling […] Continue reading Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform
When it comes to enterprise security, how do you move fast without breaking things? Enter Duo’s Wendy Nather, who will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco on September 5, where we will get the inside track on how to keep enterprise networks secure without slowing growth. Nather is head of advisory CISOs […] Continue reading Duo’s Wendy Nather to talk security at TC Sessions: Enterprise
via Sean Gallagher, reporting for Ars Technica, details the discovery of a Fishwrapping influence effort (whence the Fishwrappers, as it were, execute the rerunning of old terror news on various social network outlets). The discovery (PDF) – made by R… Continue reading Recorded Futures’ Discovery, Fishwrappery