July 2019
Tala Security Protects against Magecart Group Attacks
It has been a little over a year since we conducted an interview with Tala Security CEO, Aanand Krishnan . Since then, "Magecart" attacks which steal personal financial information directly from web browsers have effected millions of Internet users. Tala Security has risen to the challenge and is currently helping many large e-commerce and financial sites protect their web users from these types of attacks. In this interview, I ask Aanand about client-side attacks, why RASP and WAFs are not the right tools to to secure web clients and what the PCI council may be doing about this. Read More…
Netskope Acquires NewEdge
July 27 2019 Filed in: Portfolio News | NewEdge
NewEdge's cloud first VPN which enabled secure application networking was acquired by Netskope to further extend their cloud security solutions. Congratulations to the NewEdge team and CEO David Goldschlag. Read More…
The RackTop Systems "It’s Your Data" Video Campaign
July 26 2019 Filed in: RackTop | Cyber Start-Ups
A few weeks ago, RackTop Systems launched the "It's Your Data" video campaign. This campaign is really well done because it takes a lot of nebulous and complex cyber security issues and makes them personal. The video features a character named "Data" in a variety of scenarios. These videos speak about cloud risk, finding your data exposed on the dark web and waking up and finding out that your data has been maliciously encrypted.
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DataTribe Announces Second-Annual Cybersecurity Startup Challenge
July 24 2019 Filed in: DataTribe | Portfolio News
Mike Janke, DataTribe CEO, Speaking at the 2019 Baltimore Tech10 Event
Last year, I was very happy to attend DataTribe's first annual Cybersecurity Startup Challenge. It was great to see Prevailion, InertialSense and Cyr3con all pitch and demo their solutions. DataTribe just announced their second annual Cybersecurity Startup Challenge and I took the opportunity to ask DataTribe CEO, Mike Janke, to share tips for entrepreneurs applying to this year's event.