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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

Ricardo Villadiego, founder & CEO of Lumu , expects “a significant shift towards adopting models based on passwordless architectures like Google Passkeys as the dominant authentication method to combat phishing and scam campaigns. Joe Payne, President & CEO at Code42 expects biometrics to trigger a shift to insider threats. “As

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IoT and Cybersecurity: What’s the Future?

Security Affairs

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. Big Data storage systems have weaknesses. And here’s another shocking fact.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Lightspeed’s enterprise sectors beyond cybersecurity include big data, SaaS, crypto, and IT services. In 1999, four investment professionals founded Lightspeed Ventures to serve entrepreneurs in enterprise and consumer markets. Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Investments.