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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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6 Ways to Create an Incident Response Plan That’s Actually Effective

CyberSecurity Insiders

Someone in IT places a phone call and gets asked whether the company has cyber insurance. Your IR plan should contain the contact information for everyone who might be needed, from your service providers to key employees to outside counsel to, yes, the insurance provider. Include contact information.

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Cyber Defense Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Robert Herjavec

Herjavec Group

In 2003, he knew that firewalls were too complex for all IT staff and for understaffed companies to manage. Fast forward almost 20 years and we’re in a world of 3200 cybersecurity vendors and hundreds of MSSPs. He and his tiny team of 3 people, began the world’s first MSSP. MSSP EXPLOSION – will lead to MSSP CONSOLIDATION.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Other industry standards too can have the force of “pseudo-law” – notably, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which federal regulators often apply to financial-services firms and government contractors. See the Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees. Compliance can sometimes hinder real security and real data privacy.

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Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

Krebs on Security

The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services that are sold with little regard for security. When the Bush administration released the first U.S.