Xconomy | By Bernadette Tansy | January 2, 2019 Bob Ackerman is one of the venture capitalists whose funding has long fed the growth of the burgeoning cybersecurity industry. So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic...
Tech Crunch | By Bob Ackerman| December 26, 2018 News of high-profile cyber breaches has been uncharacteristically subdued in recent quarters. However, we recently learned that Marriott International/Starwood was the victim of the multi-year theft of personal information on up to 500 million customers — rivaled only by...
RSAConference | By Bob Ackerman | December 14, 2018 Three months ago, it happened again – a high profile company with sophisticated cybersecurity was breached, compromising the credit card details of 565,000 customers. The victim was British Airways. Hackers managed to work around the airline’s encryption,...
RSAConference | By: Robert Ackerman, Jr. | November 29, 2018 The year’s busiest period for retailing has begun and once again will test the effectiveness of retailing cybersecurity – and just as the World Economic Forum has produced a new report stating North American business executives rank cyber...
CYBERGRX RAISES $30 MILLION IN SERIES C FUNDING ROUND LED BY SCALE VENTURE PARTNERS Investment to Fuel Growth and Further Mission to Unite Organizations in the Collective Fight Against Cyber Threats Business Wire | November 28, 2018 CyberGRX, provider of the world’s first and largest global cyber risk...
Attributes Steep Revenue Growth To Exceptional Fraud Prevention for the Fortune 500 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shape Security today announced that is has been recognized as the fastest growing company in the Bay Area and the third-fastest growing company in North...
The Washington Post | By: Cat Zakrzewski | November 15, 2018 A group of influential chief information security officers and other cybersecurity leaders are unveiling their plans to bring a new cybersecurity event to Maryland. The invite-only Global Cyber Innovation Summit will bring top chief executives, CISOs, researchers as...
MARYLAND BECOMING A CYBERSECURITY FORCE: IT'S WHERE CYBER WORKS - Summit's Preeminent 18-Member Summit Advisory Council Represents F-100 CISOS, Technology Innovators and Industry Thought Leaders - Former NSA and CIA Director General Michael Hayden to Keynote BALTIMORE, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A premier, Invitation-only, cybersecurity forum– The Global Cyber...
Two years ago when Rob Lee first sought funding for his cybersecurity startup Dragos, most venture capitalists didn’t deem the business “investible,” he says. Fortune | By: Robert Hackett | November 14, 2018 The market for securing industrial control systems—machinery used in manufacturing, water treatment, power plants, and...
Silicon Valley Business Journal | By: Cromwell Schubarth | Nov. 7, 2018 One of the firm's early bets was Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat Systems Inc., which was founded by current Symantec CEO Greg Clark, so they know each other well already. Thoma Bravo took Blue Coat private in...