Tech Crunch | By: Ingrid Lunden | February 6, 2019 As more organizations move to cloud-based IT architectures, a startup that’s helping them secure that data in an efficient way has raised some capital. vArmour, which provides a platform to help manage security policies across disparate...
VCJ | By: Bob Ackerman | January 30, 2019 We haven’t had many high-profile cyberbreaches of late. But cyberwatchers shouldn’t let their guard down. Attacks tend to come in waves, and we’re overdue for a new one. In November we learned that Marriott International/Starwood had been victimized, threatening...
RSA Conference | By Bob Ackerman | January 29, 2019 Whether huge privacy blunders at Facebook and apparent contempt for individual personal space there and at other technology giants bothers you or not, it’s changing our way of life in America for the worse. Consumers are...
Tech Crunch | By: Bob Ackerman | January 27, 2019 As the new year begins gaining steam, there is ostensibly a piece of good news on the cyber front. Major cyber attacks have been in a lull in recent months and still are. The good tidings are...
Cities and states across the country are vying for a piece of the booming market for securing technology and data. Many are calling it “the great cyber gold rush.” – Mike Janke, Co-Founder, DataTribe Port Covington, Md. — Jan. 24, 2019 Maryland is the world’s epicenter of cybersecurity engineering...
MINNEAPOLIS – Jan. 24, 2019 – Apruve, a B2B credit automation platform, today announced that it closed on $6 million in its Series A financing led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners with participation from TTV Capital and Allegis Capital. Minneapolis-based Apruve focuses on eliminating accounts receivable...
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...