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Funding for Cybersecurity Startups Plunges – But Some Still Get Deals

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity startups had been pretty resilient despite the downturn in venture capital funding, but that run has ended in recent months. “Venture capital funds are focused on their current portfolio companies, which are affected by the slowdown in spending among their customers, and thus are investing less in new deals.”

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SHARED INTEL: FireMon survey shows security lags behind fast pace of hybrid cloud deployments

The Last Watchdog

Corporate America’s love affair with cloud computing has hit a feverish pitch. Related: Why some CEOs have quit tweeting That’s the upshot of FireMon’s second annual State of Hybrid Cloud Security Report of 522 IT and security professionals, some 14 percent of whom occupy C-suite positions.

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BEST PRACTICES: Why pursuing sound ‘data governance’ can be a cybersecurity multiplier

The Last Watchdog

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. One reason for this is storage is dirt cheap.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

And on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the company will pivot to focus on private conversations over the public sharing that has long defined the platform, even while conceding that "frankly we don't currently have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services.". How Facebook treats people on its platform.

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Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart?

Security Boulevard

Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart? Because Blockchain is the most secure framework in the world! Being secure is everything! Once we have done away with paper currency and moved 100% to digital, blockchain will protect our transactions with its global ledger design. Well, hold on for a moment: S- Simple.

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#ISC2CONGRESS – Lessons Learned from the Baltimore Ransomware Attack

CyberSecurity Insiders

Okumu lived through the ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore in 2018, which affected 90% of the municipality’s applications. As the then-director of IT infrastructure for the city, he learned a lot of valuable lessons about defending against and recovering from a ransomware attack. Still, it cost U.S. $18 They don’t hide.”.

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Public Cloud Security Explained: Everything You Need to Know

eSecurity Planet

Public cloud security refers to protections put in place to secure data and resources in cloud environments shared by multiple users or organizations. These safeguards, when combined with adherence to security best practices and standards, establish a strong security architecture for public cloud environments.