There is no way to really know how bad your data is. Until of course, something breaks. Businesses lose money. Trust. Credibility. Ask British Airways, which had once offered a $40 fare from the US to India. Or American Express which priced a Presidential suite in a hotel at $51. Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts had offered an Oceanfront Villa for $33. Best of all, Expedia Group listed rooms at the Hilton Tokyo for $3. Yes, three bucks…..

To sign up fifty customers in first 12 months is no ordinary feat for a cybersecurity startup, especially in such a tough macro environment. How did SensCy pull this off with such speed, class and finesse in its first year? And as it plots its next phase of growth, where does it go from here?

Winning RSA Conference Sandbox 2023 (Top among 10 filtered from ~3100 applicants) is just the first step of a long journey….

Why does any conversation about cybersecurity trigger fear, uncertainty and doubt? If we cannot simplify the jargon, the complexity and the management of our cyber risk, who benefits? Who loses?

One spring morning last year, workers at JBS USA, one of the world's largest meat processors found a sign posted at its plant entrance. "Team member: This weekend our company was the target of a cyberattack that has impacted our IT systems. As a result, we will not operate tomorrow..." JBS worldwide operations were forced to shut down, impacting almost 75,000 employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company ended up paying $11 million in ransomware….read more on LinkedIn

Existing cloud security solutions focus on securing cloud infrastructure or workloads but you still need to protect your most valuable assets…data. Normalyze shows the way…

When the security leader of Twitter makes a damming move was made against the CEO and Board of a publicly traded $30 billion market cap company, what’s really at stake?

When Christopher Sestito was heading threat research at Cylance, he woke up to a troubling alert. “Our core intellectual property - our machine learning (ML) model could be compromised. That was the last thing we could have imagined,” he says.

Malte Kramer is one of those rare founder CEOs who never misses his monthly investor report. His reporting discipline is probably in the 0.1% of most founders. Very few founders share monthly reports that are precise and consistent. Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners led Luxury Presence's $25 million Series B recent round for a reason.

As many as 80 percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) have never been security analysts. This means, they likely have never had to triage, orchestrate, enrich, alert, prioritize, remediate, or ticket security threats….

If Netflix builds a software product to run some of its most rigorous backend business processes, you can be damn sure that the product will be robust. To serve its 200+ million subscribers seamlessly, Netflix has to spin up a mind boggling array of content. It cannot afford to mess up. If the core team that authored this open source software decides to leave Netflix and build a startup, you can be damn sure they know what they are doing.

Dear Fantastic Founder / CEO: Congratulations - just wow! Raising a seed round for a pre revenue company at $350 million cap must feel like hell yeah moment. High fives all around -but I must pass. Because, you might be - just might be disconnected from reality.

Dear CEO: With news headlines like “the internet is on fire” you may be curious, or having a full blown panic attack. What is log4j vulnerability? Everyone calls this “a big fire…. the worst of its kind we have seen. Some polite folks call it a cluster bomb…..

Published in TechCrunch, this post dives into the analytics of security exits…

Yesterday, Symantec CEO Greg Clark flexed his M&A biceps, saying that Splunk could be an attractive target. Clark definitely plans to go whale hunting to regain Symantec’s long-lost security position. Symantec expects to grow 3-5% in 2018. Compare that to Splunk, which projects to grow upwards of 20% and generate $1.2 billion revenues. Read more on TechCrunch

As the times change, the security community needs to adapt. We live in an imperfect world, as Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer of Facebook pointed out in his recent BlackHat 2017 keynote address. Instead of trying to punish each other, hackers and innovators need to work closely to ensure a higher order. Read more on TechCrunch

Whats hot and what not…multiples, exits and acquirer motives are examined in this TechCrunch post….

Live from RSA2016 - With global cyber spending expected to reach $170 billion by 2020, startups & legacy companies alike will be competing for this ever growing pie. And thanks to Obama’s latest push for $14 billion in new Federal spending on cybersecurity, even defense contractors like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics want a seat at the table in this new arms race.