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SentinelOne announced the acquisition of Scalyr. With this acquisition, SentinelOne will be able to ingest, correlate, search, and action data from any source, delivering the industry’s most advanced integrated XDR platform for realtime threat mitigati… Continue reading SentinelOne acquires Scalyr to deliver XDR platform for realtime threat mitigation across enterprise and cloud
SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that helps customers make sense of security data using AI and machine learning, announced today that it is acquiring Scalyr, the high-speed logging startup for $155 million in stock and cash. SentinelOne sorts through oodles of data to help customers understand their security posture, and having a tool that enables […] Continue reading SentinelOne to acquire high-speed logging startup Scalyr for $155M
Mounting evidence suggests that TrickBot, the vast botnet that both U.S. Cyber Command and a Microsoft-led coalition sought to disable around the 2020 elections, is on the mend and evolving. The separate campaigns featured Microsoft going to court to disable IP addresses associated with TrickBot command and control servers, as Cyber Command’s operation also targeted command and control servers. Hints of its rebound began in late October, shortly after signs of success in the bids to dismantle the TrickBot network of zombie computers. While Cyber Command and Microsoft always billed their assaults as a disruption rather than a full takedown, the TrickBot comeback is proof that it’s difficult to kill a botnet outright. Botnets are dangerous because they can be used to conduct a range of harmful activities, like distributed denial of service attacks that overwhelm a site with traffic or ransomware attacks, the latter of which were a major issue of concern for U.S. national security […]
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SentinelOne announced it has raised $267 million in Series F funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Sequoia Capital Global Equities and existing investors including Insight Partners and Third Point Ventures. The significantly o… Continue reading SentinelOne raises $267 million to accelerate growth driven by demand for its Singularity XDR Platform
This year, more than ever before because of the Covid-19 pandemic, huge droves of workers and consumers have been turning to the internet to communicate, get things done, and entertain themselves. That has created a huge bonanza for cybercriminals, but also companies that are building tools to combat them. In the latest development, an Israel-hatched, […] Continue reading SentinelOne, an AI-based endpoint security firm, confirms $267M raise on a $3.1B valuation
SentinelOne announced it has secured a new patent from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). SentinelOne’s latest patent, USPTO Patent No. 10,762,200, titled System and Methods for Executable Code Detection, Automatic Feature Extraction, and… Continue reading SentinelOne secures patent for unique approach to uncovering exploits in their initial payload stage
SentinelOne announced the appointment of David Bernhardt as CFO. Drawing upon more than 20 years of SaaS experience in financial operations management of pre- and post-IPO companies, Mr. Bernhardt will support SentinelOne’s rapid growth in the endpoint… Continue reading SentinelOne appoints David Bernhardt as CFO
SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced the appointment of Chuck Fontana as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Mr. Fontana will lead SentinelOne’s business and corporate (M&A) development fun… Continue reading SentinelOne hires Chuck Fontana as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development
SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, announced it has raised $200 million in Series E funding led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Tiger Global Management, Qualcomm Ventures… Continue reading SentinelOne raises $200M to accommodate customer demand and accelerate growth
A new version of the Sarwent malware can open the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port on target Windows computers to make sure that crooks can find their way back into the system through the backdoor. Whether that access is used later by the same crooks… Continue reading Malware opens RDP backdoor into Windows systems