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YL Ventures, the Silicon Valley headquartered seed-stage venture capital firm focusing on Israeli cybersecurity innovation, announced a major expansion of its Venture Advisory Board. The four existing advisors (Tom Baltis, CISO of Delta Dental Insuranc… Continue reading YL Ventures expands advisory board with 24 cybersecurity executives
Thus far in 2018, organizations and individuals worldwide have experienced a large number of high profile cyber attacks, with criminals stealing billions of dollars as well as personal information from hundreds of millions of people. Black Hat USA, an … Continue reading Three security trends to watch for at Black Hat USA 2018
During CyberWeek 2018, YL Ventures launched CyberMap, the first live map of Israel’s cybersecurity ecosystem. The live landscape enables interactive filtering based on: company category, funding stage, and more. Unlike other industry guides and infogra… Continue reading CyberMap: Live map of Israel’s cybersecurity ecosystem
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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By 2020, an estimated 75 percent of cars will be internet-connected worldwide, according to estimates from the FBI, Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That connectivity will allow drivers to tap i… Continue reading To stop hackers from invading self-driving cars, Karamba Security raises $12 million