CRN | By Sarah Kuranda | January 3, 2017, 9:27 am EST Security industry venture capitalists said the role of managed security service providers (MSSPs) will become more important as enterprise customers deal with a new host of security concerns. [vc_empty_space height="20"] "I see a continued significant expansion...
XCONOMY | By Robert R. Ackerman Jr. | January 4th, 2017 Cybersecurity is the penultimate existential risk to the United States—economically, militarily, socially, and as we have seen recently, politically. The nature of cyber is asymmetric, and given the size of the U.S. economy, our reliance...
Consolidation of startups is set to repeat as venture firms take on cautious stance By Cat Zakrzewski | Dec. 23, 2016 7:30 a.m. ET Venture investors hit the reset button on cybersecurity investing in 2016, but they are watching closely to see how a new political landscape could affect...
XCONOMY | By Robert R. Ackerman Jr. | December 21, 2016 A silver lining has emerged in the wake of the massive and well-publicized denial-of-service attack launched less than two months ago by hackers using millions of IoT devices to cripple the websites of major companies...
BUSINESS WIRE | December 13, 2016 11:20 AM SAN JOSE, Calif.--Leading ecommerce fraud prevention company, Signifyd and ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company® announced today they will combine efforts to eliminate online fraud for their customers. The partnership enables ecommerce merchants to remove the liability for fraud...
National Venture Capital Association | By Robert R. Ackerman Jr. If you want to get a sense of the size and significance of the U.S. cybersecurity ecosystem in one location, a must-visit is the National Business Park at Fort Meade in Maryland. It is highly impressive...
In this CyberWire Podcast Special Edition, we examine the current state of investment in cyber security, speak to experts in the field, and learn from top cyber security-focused venture capitalists what they expect before they invest. The CyberWire | November 29, 2016 [vc_empty_space height="20"] There’s no question that...
November 1, 2016 | Streetinsider | Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ClariPhy Communications Inc., a leading provider of ultra-high-speed systems-on-chip (SoCs) for multi-terabit data, long haul and metro networking markets for $275 million in cash as...
By Bob Ackerman | November 1, 2016 | PE Hub It was a failure. That’s what we learned in September about semiconductor giant Intel’s acquisition of antivirus software maker McAfee five years ago. Intel agreed to sell a majority stake in its $7.7 billion acquisition to a private equity...
Recently awarded patents will serve the growing security needs of the modern data center environment Marketwired | Oct 26, 2016 | 9:00 ET MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - vArmour, the leading data center and cloud security company, today announced innovative additions to its patent portfolio issued by the...