August 7, 2024 at 03:25PM At Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, Eitan Worcel of Mobb Security, last year’s winner, passed the torch to Knostic, the 2024 winner. Sounil Yu, Knostic’s CTO, accepted the award. Four finalists, including LeakSignal, RAD Security, DryRun Security, and Knostic, made final pitches. Knostic’s tool focuses on access control of … Read more
July 11, 2024 at 12:21PM British startup Tracebit secures $5M seed-stage funding for cloud-based threat detection and deception tech. London-based company offers cloud-native threat deception technology to strengthen cybersecurity and expedite incident identification. Funding led by Accel, with support from Tapestry VC, 20SALES, and angel investors. Tracebit’s product uses canaries to enhance threat detection, plans … Read more
June 27, 2024 at 01:20PM At Black Hat USA 2024, Jason Healey will present “Is Defense Winning?” examining the perpetual struggle between cybersecurity defenders and attackers. He emphasizes the need for measurable indicators to gauge defensive progress, suggesting changes akin to climate change metrics. He advocates leveraging systemic changes and existing reports to establish defensibility … Read more
May 3, 2024 at 07:27AM Horizon3.ai has introduced a Rapid Response service to their NodeZero SaaS-based penetration testing platform, using a combination of autonomous AI and human expertise. This service aims to quickly identify and address critical vulnerabilities, staying ahead of potential attackers. Leveraging AI’s speed and human reasoning, the platform creates safe exploits and … Read more
May 2, 2024 at 10:03AM Corelight, an NDR company, secures $150M in Series E funding round led by Accel, with support from Cisco Investments and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. The San Francisco-based company, offering network traffic analysis and ground truth evidence of adversarial activity, plans to accelerate AI-driven security innovation and cloud-native security capabilities, in addition … Read more
April 19, 2024 at 04:06PM Miggo, a cybersecurity startup, secured $7.5 million in seed funding for its Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform. It addresses critical blind spots in application security and aims to detect and respond to targeted attacks in real-time, particularly in the era of distributed application architecture. YL Ventures led the funding … Read more
March 21, 2024 at 10:05AM An arms race is emerging in technology between those targeting adversaries and those aiming to prevent attacks. It appears that there is a growing arms race between parties utilizing technology to target adversaries and those leveraging it to prevent attacks from being successful. This suggests a trend towards increasing technological … Read more
December 1, 2023 at 02:29AM For the first time, European police utilized Interpol’s Biometric Hub, using Idemia technology, to remotely identify and arrest a suspected smuggler with false ID in Sarajevo. The tool, which combines fingerprint and facial recognition databases, will later expand to border controls and perform up to one million searches a day, … Read more