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Industrial Security Firm Claroty Raises $140M Round, Last Before IPO
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We are able to reverse-engineer OT protocols and use them thanks to help from Schneider Electric, Rockwell Automation, and Siemens. These three also use and sell our products. And it’s not just OT, but also IoT and IIoT. We protect everything in the four walls on the industrial side,’ says Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi.
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ForcePoint To Buy UK Security Provider Deep Secure For Threat Removal Know-How
by Gina Narcisi
In its second acquisition in two months, Forcepoint announced plans to buy cybersecurity company Deep Secure for its threat removal chops.
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MSPs: ‘We Need More Bodies To Help’ Win Ransomware ‘War’
by C.J. Fairfield
‘When you see people in a hospital getting a chemo treatment that’s being affected by a ransomware attack — that’s very eye opening,’ says Mark Jones, founder and CEO of BlackLake Security.
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Arctic Wolf Eyes Additional Funding At Valuation Above $4B: Report
by Michael Novinson
Arctic Wolf is set to more than triple its valuation in mere months following yet another financing round from Viking Global Investors, according to Bloomberg.
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DOJ Treating Ransomware As Terrorism Brings It ‘Out Of The Darkness’: MSPs
by C.J. Fairfield
‘This helps bring it out from the darkness, it puts a greater light on it. It’s not new news. We’ve been dealing with this for years. Ransomware is a billion-plus dollar industry, and it didn’t just happen overnight,’ says Solutions Granted CEO Michael Crean.
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Cybrary Snags Secureworks COO Kevin Hanes To Lead Company
by Michael Novinson
Hanes started June 1 as CEO of cybersecurity workforce development platform Cybrary, and plans to focus on building out simulation exercises that are more realistic than labs but less intensive than cyber ranges.
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Bain, Crosspoint To Buy Cybersecurity Firm ExtraHop For $900M
by Michael Novinson
The private equity money should help network detection and response firm ExtraHop extend the power of its platform to consolidate adjacent markets like intrusion detection, network forensics, and IoT security.
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Feds Seize Majority Of $4.3M Ransom Paid By Colonial Pipeline To Darkside Hackers
by Michael Novinson
‘New financial technologies that attempt to anonymize payments will not provide a curtain from behind which criminals will be permitted to pick the pockets of hardworking Americans,’ says U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds.
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Colonial Pipeline Hacked Via Inactive Account Without MFA
by Michael Novinson
The Darkside ransomware gang broke into Colonial Pipeline through an inactive account that didn’t use multifactor authentication, according to a consultant who investigated the attack.
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Secureworks CEO Transition: Wendy Thomas To Replace Michael Cote
by Michael Novinson
During her nine years with Secureworks, Wendy Thomas, 49, has driven the acquisition of Verisign’s Managed Security Services (MSS) business and launched the company’s first security analytics product.
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FireEye To Sell Products Business To Symphony Technology Group For $1.2B
by Michael Novinson
The sale will undo FireEye’s $1 billion acquisition of Mandiant in 2014, and will bring the company’s product portfolio under control of the same private equity group that is purchasing McAfee’s enterprise business.
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