Pandemic drove VC funding for health care to record $80.6 billion in 2020
Canalys: Cybersecurity spending is projected to rise 10% in 2021
StackPulse exits stealth with $28 million to automate incident response and remediation
Quali raises $54 million to automate cloud management and deployment
Swimlane raises $40 million to automate cybersecurity operations
Seed rounds for cybersecurity rose during pandemic as enterprises search for new defenses
Veritas Technologies acquires HubStor to protect cloud data
Ring rolls out end-to-end video encryption after a class action lawsuit
Hackers hijacked email security firm Mimecast to spy on customers
SolarWinds hackers are tied to known Russian spying tools
Outlandish Stanford facial recognition study claims there are links between facial features and political orientation
Equifax will pay $640 million for Kount’s AI-driven identity and fraud prevention tools
How IBM is using blockchain to transform the potential of enterprise data
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Lacework raises $525 million to automate cloud security and compliance
Intel launches RealSense ID for on-device facial recognition
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested technology that can recognize masked faces
Iboss raises $145 million as pandemic and WFH push security to the cloud
Microsoft says Russians accessed account ‘used to view source code’ in Solorigate hack
Apple loses copyright infringement claims against security startup Corellium
FAA approves small drones in the U.S. to fly over people and at night
Goldman Sachs leads acquisition of bot mitigation company White Ops
SolarWinds hackers are ‘impacting’ U.S. federal, state, and local governments
Dubber acquires Speik to expand its AI call-recording service
Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO
OneTrust raises $300 million to automate data governance and compliance
Chinese face-scanning firm CloudMinds rebrands U.S. unit after blacklisting
T-Mobile: Massive BYOD growth raises huge enterprise security risks
How Polypoly wants to reinvent the data economy
Microsoft found malicious SolarWinds software in its systems
Microsoft will build Inventec’s private 5G networks for smart manufacturing
SolarWinds’ dominance became a liability in sprawling spy campaign
U.S. Homeland Security and businesses respond to suspected Russian hack
EU watchdog warns of using AI in predictive policing, medical diagnoses, and targeted advertising
New York City Council votes to prohibit businesses from using facial recognition without public notice
Google will change how Chrome extensions access data in 2021
U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye said it was hacked, likely in a state-sponsored attack
Few researchers thoroughly test adversarial attacks on surveillance AI in the real world
