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Orca Security announced that it has raised $550 million in its extended Series C fundraising round led by Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore. The round boosted its valuation 50 percent in just seven months to $1.8 Billion. Orca S… Continue reading Orca Security raises $550M to accelerate transformation of cloud security industry
YL Ventures, the Israel-focused cybersecurity seed fund, today announced that it has sold its stake cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius, which only a week ago announced a $100 million Series D funding round that now values it at around $1.2 billion. ICONIQ Growth, Alkeon Capital Management, DTCP and Harmony Partners acquired YL Venture’s stake for $270 […] Continue reading YL Ventures sells its stake in cybersecurity unicorn Axonius for $270M
YL Ventures, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investing in Israeli cybersecurity startups, today announced it has closed its fourth fund with $120 million of committed capital. YLV IV was significantly oversubscribed, … Continue reading YL Ventures closes fourth fund with $120M of committed capital
Palo Alto Networks has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Twistlock, the leader in container security, and PureSec, a leader in serverless security, to extend its Prisma cloud security strategy. These proposed acquisitions will further advan… Continue reading Palo Alto Networks to acquire Twistlock and PureSec
Palo Alto Networks plans to bring together several cybersecurity platforms into a unified platform it is calling Prisma in the wake of agreeing to acquire Twistlock, provider of a container security platform, and PureSec, provider of a platform for se… Continue reading Palo Alto Networks Details Strategy Post Acquisition Spree
“While many security providers already offer products that can run in VMs, they’re often just rehashed legacy endpoint protection and are not optimized for the kind of automation and statelessness that defines cloud native,” said John Morello, chief te… Continue reading Twistlock Expands Cloud Native Cybersecurity Platform for Hosts, Containers, and Serverless Across the DevSecOps Lifecycle
A serious vulnerability in runC, a widely used CLI tool for spawning and running containers, could be exploited to compromise the runC host binary from inside a privileged runC container, allowing the attacker to gain root access on the underlying host… Continue reading RunC container escape flaw enables root access to host system
Twistlock, a startup that provides a security platform for cloud native and containerized applications, announced on Wednesday that it raised $33 million in Series C funding. The company’s container security platform is meant to help customers with things like managing vulnerabilities, setting up firewalls and complying with industry standards and best practices. Twistlock says this is becoming important as enterprises increasingly take up cloud native, containerized and serverless systems. The advantage of such technologies is their portability and the ability to deploy them into different computing environments, but they have also been exploited for recent security lapses. In February, Tesla fell victim to a cryptojacking scheme resulting from an unprotected Kubernetes console. In June, files posted to Docker Hub allowed hackers to conduct cryptojacking on the servers of victims who unknowingly downloaded them. Based in Portland, Oregon, Twistlock presents itself as a catch-all platform to secure cloud native systems. “The […]
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Twistlock announced the release of Twistlock 2.5, the 14th release of its platform. Twistlock 2.5 provides enterprises with real time incident response and forensics capabilities designed to complement the defense in depth offered by Twistlock’s … Continue reading Twistlock adds automated cloud native forensics to its cybersecurity platform