Collaborate Disseminate
As the markets continue to fluctuate, budget cuts and layoffs now extend across the tech industry, with cybersecurity no exception from tightening its belt and assessing its priorities. Investors are proceeding with caution and waiting to see a correct… Continue reading How entrepreneurs can capitalize on the impending golden age of cybersecurity
YL Ventures has unveiled that Frank Kim has joined as its new full-time CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)-in-Residence. The SANS fellow, already a seasoned advisor and angel investor to many cybersecurity startups, will work with the firm’s por… Continue reading Frank Kim joins YL Ventures as CISO-in-Residence
Nearly half of enterprises have fallen victim to a ransomware attack, of which nearly all have had little choice but to heed their attackers, according to the Q2 CISO Circuit report from YL Ventures. The financial disruption, privacy implications and o… Continue reading CISOs see little need for a point solution to cover ransomware risk
How many cybersecurity vendors are active at the moment? What are they offering? How is their business doing? These are just some of the questions that Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, is trying to answer on a daily basis. The fo… Continue reading The infosec investment landscape: Which tech gets the most bucks?
Cyber Week is a large annual international cybersecurity event, hosted each year at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Cyber Week 2022 is held jointly by the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), The Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, … Continue reading Photos: Cyber Week 2022
I recently had the opportunity to meet and speak with several luminaries of the global security ecosystem: Roger Hale – Chief Security Officer; BigID, Sounil Yu – CISO and Head of Research at JupiterOne; Debbie Taylor Moore – VP and S… Continue reading Recovery and resilience: CISO insights into the 2022 cybersecurity landscape
YL Ventures announced the launch of its new $400M fund – YLV V, bringing its total capital under management to $800M. The significantly oversubscribed fund is the largest seed stage cybersecurity-focused fund ever raised, bridging Israeli innovat… Continue reading YL Ventures announces $400 million fund to boost Israeli cybersecurity innovation
In this video for Help Net Security, Yonit Wiseman, Associate at YL Ventures, talks about the Israeli cybersecurity funding landscape in the past year. The Israeli cybersecurity industry has seen a rapid growth in the last decade, as many companies hav… Continue reading The Israeli cybersecurity funding landscape in the past year
In my experience as a CISO in the industry, as well as in my current position as CISO-in-Residence at YL Ventures, an early-stage, cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm, I have been fortunate to provide founders with guidance and insights into the… Continue reading How to build a security tool that sells
Orca Security announced that Andy Ellis, famed cybersecurity leader, has joined the company as an advisory CISO. Ellis will harness his broad security expertise from product development to industry awareness building, and even supporting HR, leadership… Continue reading Andy Ellis joins Orca Security as advisory CISO