Insider Threats: A Big Fear for Small Businesses

In the list of things that keep SMB leaders awake at night, insider threats rate at the top. Here’s why this threat is far bigger for smaller companies. A recent report finds that more than half (58 percent) of small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) exe… Continue reading Insider Threats: A Big Fear for Small Businesses

Bitdefender, Symantec, & Untangle – Enterprise Security Weekly #120

Bitdefender offers new managed threat monitoring service, Symantec and Fortinet partner to deliver robust and comprehensive cloud security service, Untangle partners with Malwarebytes to bring layered security to SMBs, and more! Enterprise News Intel, … Continue reading Bitdefender, Symantec, & Untangle – Enterprise Security Weekly #120

Cybersecurity Struggles Continue, Cisco Report Finds

A global cybersecurity survey published by Cisco Systems finds that 53 percent of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) experienced a breach in the last year. Perhaps more importantly, that same research finds that more than (54 percent) of all cyberattac… Continue reading Cybersecurity Struggles Continue, Cisco Report Finds

Re-Thinking ‘Patch and Pray’

Reading Time: ~3 min.When WannaCry ransomware spread throughout the world last year by exploiting vulnerabilities for which there were patches, we security “pundits” stepped up the call to patch, as we always do. In a post on LinkedIn Greg … Continue reading Re-Thinking ‘Patch and Pray’

Small business loan platform Kabbage nabs $250M from Softbank

 Kabbage, a company with some 115,000 customers and $3.5 billion in loans that has built an automated platform for lending money to small businesses and individuals using a large set of data points to determine a customer’s credit score, is announcing some big cabbage of its own today. SoftBank Group is investing $250 million in Kabbage — funding that Rob Frohwein, the co-founder… Read More Continue reading Small business loan platform Kabbage nabs $250M from Softbank

UK’s Tide raises $14M to challenge big banks with a mobile-first service for SMBs

 Europe has seen a large wave of startup banks pop up in the last few years — businesses like N26, Atom and Monzo that are taking on the big incumbents by creating faster and cheaper services for a new class of consumers as they grow up and enter the working world. Now a startup has raised a sizeable Series A to tackle what it believes is a similar opportunity in the small business… Read More Continue reading UK’s Tide raises $14M to challenge big banks with a mobile-first service for SMBs

UK’s Tide raises $14M to challenge big banks with a mobile-first service for SMBs

 Europe has seen a large wave of startup banks pop up in the last few years — businesses like N26, Atom and Monzo that are taking on the big incumbents by creating faster and cheaper services for a new class of consumers as they grow up and enter the working world. Now a startup has raised a sizeable Series A to tackle what it believes is a similar opportunity in the small business… Read More Continue reading UK’s Tide raises $14M to challenge big banks with a mobile-first service for SMBs

Kabbage nabs $500M for small business loans

 Kabbage, a billion-dollar startup that combines machine learning algorithms, data from public profiles on the internet and other factors to rate and then loan people money for their small businesses, is today announcing another big step up in its ambitions. The company has secured over $500 million in fixed-rate, asset-backed notes, money that it will use to expand the amount, payback… Read More Continue reading Kabbage nabs $500M for small business loans