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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
Many software vulnerabilities are already known, and vendors have even issued patches, but the problem is there are so many patches that it’s often difficult for companies to keep up. Vulcan Cyber wants to help by bringing a level of automation to the patching operation, and in the process reduce exposure to known risks. Today, […] Continue reading Vulcan Cyber announces $10M Series A to automate security patching efforts
Israeli startup Vulcan Cyber today announced $4 million in seed funding for its mission to eliminate the vulnerability remediation gap that unnecessarily exposes enterprises to massive cyber risk. Vulcan Cyber co-founders, from left to right: CTO Roy H… Continue reading Vulcan Cyber announces continuous vulnerability remediation platform and $4M seed round
Vulcan Cyber, an Israeli vulnerability remediation startup, launched on Wednesday with $4 million in seed funding in hand. The funding primarily comes from cybersecurity investing company YL Ventures, with participation from a few other investors. The problem the Tel Aviv-based company wants to solve is that, as organizations expand their IT infrastructures, so does their attack surface. But that doesn’t mean their visibility into new vulnerabilities increases in kind. “This speed of change coupled with the ever-expanding number of vulnerabilities in today’s enterprise software stack and hackers who are constantly probing for this ‘low hanging fruit,’ creates a reality of incessant and unrelenting risk,” the company said in its announcement. Vulcan’s main offering is its Continuous Vulnerability Remediation platform. The product uses “dozens of scanning tools” to aggregate data from a customer’s network and analyzes it to identify vulnerabilities. It then “prioritizes, plans, orchestrates and validates remediation.” The platform works […]
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