Israeli venture capital fund YL Ventures has sold its stake in compatriot cybersecurity firm Axonius – just days after the latter was valued at over a billion dollars. The stake, worth around…
Portshift CEO Ran Ilany: “Kubernetes will Become the De Facto Deployment and Orchestration Target”
Portshift is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm that provides a Kubernetes-native security solution – “a single source of truth for containers and cloud-native applications security.” It has raised over $5 million to…
Eugene Kaspersky Launches Tourism Accelerator, Takes Aim at Russian Hackers
If Russian cybersecurity magnate Eugene Kaspersky rarely steps away from a challenge, this week has been even more combative than usual. On Tuesday the Moscow-based chief of Kaspersky Lab gave an interview…
Temasek Acquires Israeli Cybersecurity Firm Sygnia for $250m
Temasek, Singapore’s state-controlled investment vehicle, has acquired Israeli cybersecurity company Sygnia for around $250 million. Sygnia, headquartered in Tel Aviv, only came out of stealth last year. It was launched in 2015…
Tanium Raises $200m at $6.5bn Valuation; Shelves IPO
Cybersecurity firm Tanium has raised $200 million in a funding round that values the Emeryville, California startup at $6.5bn. It will use the money to pay out employees and early investors, staving…
DEVCON CEO Maggie Louie: “Too Many Ad-Theft Companies are Fear Mongers”
For an industry as brittle as publishing, advertising fraud can be fatal. According to Marketing Dive, an analyst, publishers lose $1.27 billion each year to ad fraudsters, whose activity rises yearly. Losses…
ThetaRay Raises over $30m to Scale its AI Cybersecurity Solution
Israeli AI and Big Data cybersecurity firm ThetaRay has won a $30 million-plus funding round, as it scales up its cutting edge crime prevention solution. The company, headquartered in Hod Hasharon and…
Purple Pays: XM Cyber and the Importance of Security Automation
“The state of global cybersecurity is not faring well,” warns XM Cyber co-founder and CEO Noam Erez, “and the consensus is that it’s about to get worse.” That outlook might seem bad…
Keep Your WordPress Site Safe and Secure: Five Simple Tactics
Launched in 2003, WordPress had a humble start as a small bit of code meant to improve typography. Since then, it has grown into a robust, easy to use blogging system with…
In the Race to Build the Car of the Future, Israel is Speeding Ahead
Israel’s status as a leading tech nation is not in doubt. The Middle Eastern state of just eight million people, known as “Silicon Wadi”, is home to 5,000 startups and 750 venture-backed…