Category Archives: SMBs

Atera raises $77M at a $500M valuation to help SMBs manage their remote networks like enterprises do

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When it comes to software to help IT manage workers’ devices wherever they happen to be, enterprises have long been spoiled for choice — a situation that has come in especially handy in the last 18 months, when many offices globally have gone remote and people have logged into their systems from home. But the […] Continue reading Atera raises $77M at a $500M valuation to help SMBs manage their remote networks like enterprises do→

What are the most common cybersecurity challenges SMEs face today?

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered to be the backbone of Europe’s economy. 25 million SMEs are active in the EU, and employ more than 100 million workers. ENISA identified the cybersecurity challenges SMEs face today and iss… Continue reading What are the most common cybersecurity challenges SMEs face today?→

How Can SMBs Fight Cyberattacks?

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) faced unique challenges on the cybersecurity front. The massive disruption caused by the pandemic only exacerbated the challenges of protecting data, systems and business—not to m… Continue reading How Can SMBs Fight Cyberattacks?→

DataRails books $25M more to build better financial reporting tools for SMBs

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As enterprise startups continue to target interesting gaps in the market, we’re seeing increasingly sophisticated tools getting built for small and medium businesses — traditionally a tricky segment to sell to, too small for large enterprise tools, and too advanced in their needs for consumer products. In the latest development of that trend, an Israeli […] Continue reading DataRails books $25M more to build better financial reporting tools for SMBs→

Novo, a neobank for SMBs, banks $41M

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Small businesses have traditionally been underserved when it comes to IT — they are too big and have too many requirements that can’t be met by consumer products, yet are much too small to afford, implement or thoroughly need apps and other IT build for larger enterprises. But when it comes to neobanks, it feels […] Continue reading Novo, a neobank for SMBs, banks $41M→

How a conference room speakerphone might let attackers into your company network

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Several egregious vulnerabilities affecting the Stem Audio Table conference room speakerphone could be exploited by attackers to eavesdrop on what’s being discussed in its proximity, download malicious firmware, achieve and maintain network persi… Continue reading How a conference room speakerphone might let attackers into your company network→

Ransomware attackers are leveraging old SonicWall SRA flaw (CVE-2019-7481)

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Since the beginning of the year, various cyber attackers leveraged a slew of zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise different SonicWall solutions. Crowdstrike now warns that a cyber-criminal group is exploiting CVE-2019-7481 – an older SQL inject… Continue reading Ransomware attackers are leveraging old SonicWall SRA flaw (CVE-2019-7481)→

White House urges private sector to enhance their ransomware defenses

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In light of the ransomware attacks hitting high-profile targets such as the Colonial Pipeline and JBS, the White House has issued an open letter to private sector companies, urging them to do their part to stymie the threat. The Federal Government is w… Continue reading White House urges private sector to enhance their ransomware defenses→

UK’s Paysend raises $125M at a $700M+ valuation to expand its all-in-one payments platform

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With more people than ever before going online to pay for things and pay each other, startups that are building the infrastructure that enables these actions continue to get a lot of attention. In the latest development, Paysend, a fintech that has built a mobile-based payments platform — which currently offers international money transfers, global […] Continue reading UK’s Paysend raises $125M at a $700M+ valuation to expand its all-in-one payments platform→

Sophos XDR: Threat hunting through the entire security ecosystem

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Almost a decade ago, ransomware started becoming a prominent consumer problem, locking computers and threatening users with fines and jail time for supposedly downloading unlicensed software or child pornography. Not long after that cyber criminals swi… Continue reading Sophos XDR: Threat hunting through the entire security ecosystem→