San Jose, CA – January 30, 2025 – Seraphic Security, a leader in enterprise browser security, today announced that it has secured a $29 million Series A funding round led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV), with participation from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and existing investors Planven, Cota Capital, Storm Ventures, Eastlink and Secure Octane. This milestone will enable the organization to accelerate its product roadmap and market expansion in North America and EMEA.

As the New Year begins, recent cyber attacks on educational organizations remind me how important it is for Identity Security to stay ahead of bad actors.

PowerSchool is the largest provider of cloud-based education software for K-12 education in the U.S., supporting more than 50 million students. Hackers successfully breached its customer support portal, allowing further access to the company’s information systems. 

A short time after, news broke of small public schools being hit with cyberattacks in Maine. The first was a breach in the internet network in the South Portland School District coming from an attacker in Bulgaria. At a different Maine school district, a student’s email address was hacked and used in a phishing scam, again by someone outside the country. They sent emails out to around 1,400 different accounts. 

Organizations serving students large and small, public and private, are being targeted.  Education is no longer a safe space from threat actors, and we urge leaders to take proactive steps to shore up their systems against attack. We take seriously our responsibility to help, and one way is by sharing learnings from these incidents to help take action to avoid the same outcomes.

Browser extensions are software modules that can be added to web browsers to enhance their functionality. They can provide a wide range of features, such as ad-blocking, password management, and improved user interface customization.

However, not all extensions are benign; some are designed with malicious intent. Malicious browser extensions can steal sensitive data, track user behavior, inject unwanted advertisements, or even take over a user’s browser entirely. In this blog, we’ll take a deep dive into what malicious browser extensions can do and how to mitigate the risks they pose.

XM Cyber and ServiceNow are coming together to integrate the leading continuous exposure management platform with the leading workflow automation platform. We’re excited about this collaboration that gives organizations the ability to build and support more efficient remediation programs. In this blog, we’ll discuss how IT and Security leaders can more effectively mobilize their teams, align resources, and deliver better business outcomes with these new integrations. 

Microsoft Azure recently made a major announcement: the general availability of Azure Confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. New Azure VM types and sizes are released often, but this release is especially significant: it brings groundbreaking capabilities for confidential high-performance AI and machine learning use cases.

On September 10, Saviynt announced Saviynt Intelligence, a new suite of capabilities bringing additional insights and clarity for identity security. Intelligent Recommendations is the first offering introduced under the Saviynt Intelligence umbrella and is not simply an incremental improvement in existing Saviynt Identity Cloud features, but a radical reimagining of how Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) is achieved.

How MSPs Can Deliver Multi-Layered Protection to SMBs. Holistic, hassle-free security solution empowering MSPs to offer SMBs streamlined security solutions.

Continuous Threat Exposure Management framework (CTEM) is an increasingly popular proactive cybersecurity approach. CTEM’s power lies in its construct, which enables a continual assessment of how and if an organization might be impacted by cyberattacks. 

How well do you know your 3rd party service providers and their level of commitment to information security controls and procedures? What do you know about their service providers? For most companies, the answer is “not much”, yes virtually all organizations provide access to those “unknowns” into their network and applications to get the job done. Securing this supply chain has always been a headache for companies and several solutions are commonly used to balance between security and “getting things done”.

comforte's data-centric security platform discovers sensitive data elements and replaces them with non-sensitive placeholders meaningless to attackers while preserving their utility for processing and analytics. Their solutions help organizations mitigate the risks of data breaches, enable secure data utilization across business applications, and reduce the complexity of compliance with stringent regulations such as PCI DSS or GDPR.

What will you do in the first 30 seconds of a ransomware file encryption commencing?

The reality for most organisations is that they will do nothing at all. 99% of the time, they will be blissfully unaware until users start complaining that they cannot open the files.

Cyber Threats on the Rise: Small and medium businesses, are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks, making cyber insurance essential.

Widespread Underinsurance: Despite the rising risks, many SMBs remain underinsured or not insured at all against cyber threats.

Guardz’s Pioneering Solution: Guardz has launched a new offering to help secure and insure small & medium businesses against growing cybersecurity threats, making insurance accessible to previously ineligible companies.

Data analytics have been used for decades to enhance business insight and drive efficiency, growth and innovation. But the addition of intelligent algorithms and cloud computing power offers potentially game-changing opportunities to push these benefits even further. The challenge, as ever, is to ensure the underlying data itself is kept as secure as possible. If not, business leaders may lose confidence in its accuracy and expose their organization to significant financial, reputational and compliance risk.

Skybox believes that technology is an enabler for achieving network and security compliance with both internal policies and industry regulations, helping organisations understand their compliance status, monitor it continuously, and manage and remediate violations.

The benefits of the all-in-one solution Tehama offers to its customers, the close cooperation with Gerobo, and the significant prospects that are now opening up for pan-European expansion with a Greek touch.

Solid8 Technologies: Your Trusted Partner in Sub-Saharan Africa's Cybersecurity Landscape

IronNet, Inc. (“IronNet”), the leading collective defense platform, is deploying its IronRadarSM early warning system as part of the CDAIC program and itsIronDome® for collective defense that enables the sharing of threat Intelligence at machine speed.