The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

All of the technical innovation cybersecurity vendors are churning out to deal with ever-expanding cyber risks, at the end of the day, come down to protecting encrypted data. And since 2005 or so, one area of focus has been on sharpening the math formulas that make attribute-based encryption possible.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Somehow SMBs must keep pace competitively, while also tamping down the rising risk of suffering a catastrophic network breach. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 28, 2022

A conservative estimate from 2002 predicted that by 2005, cyber insurance would boast a global market worth $2.5 Astoundingly, the cyber insurance market shrank relative to the Internet economy. billion by 2026 – cyber insurance still struggles to find its place in an increasingly crowded cybersphere.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

AllegisCyber Capital was founded in 1996 to serve the growing cyber business ecosystem. AllegisCyber Capital. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include E8 Security, IronPort, and Shape Security; and AllegisCyber’s other successful investments include Bracket Computing, Moki, Platfora, and Solera Networks. Insight Partners.

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