Funding, AI controls your PC, Cyberstarts stops Sunrise, public cyber goes private – ESW #382

Adrian Sanabria

1. FUNDING: Select fundings from the Security, Funded newsletter: Socket, Reality Defender, and Stream.Security
   1. Socket lands a $40 million Series B to "save the world from open-source attacks"
   2. Reality Defender Expands Series A to $33 Million to Enhance AI Detection Capabilities
   3. Stream.Security Secures $30 Million in Series B Funding for "Real Time Cloud Threat & Exposure Detection and Response"
2. ACQUISITIONS: Cyera acquires Trail Security for $162M; Cyera is now raising at a $3B valuation
3. ACQUISITIONS: Sophos to Acquire Secureworks to Accelerate Cybersecurity Services and Technology for Organizations Worldwide
4. NEW COMPANIES: AI Data Compliance and Security Posture Enforcement ≡ Chorology
5. NEW PRODUCTS: Introducing EVA — The Employee Verification App
6. CYBERSTARTS: This VC Built A Cybersecurity Unicorn Machine. Then Came A Conflict Of Interest Mess.
7. LOSSES: BlackBerry Cuts Cylance Spend to Focus on Profitable Areas
8. FINES: SEC fines 4 firms for sloppy incident disclosures related to SolarWinds case
9. WINS: Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC
10. ESSAYS: Platforms vs. best of breed is a wrong way of looking at the industry
11. ESSAYS: Eleven cybersecurity companies have gone private in the past five years (Cole Grolmus)
12. BEEFS: Splunk vs Palo Alto Networks
13. BUG BOUNTIES: Security research on Private Cloud Compute – Apple Security Research
14. SQUIRREL: Reverse Engineering Redbox

Ayman Elsawah

1. Reflections From TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 As a Security Professional

   This week I had the opportunity to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. I think it was the first time I have ever attended a non-security conference.

   I didn’t know what to expect. Everything I knew about Disrupt was from the show Silicon Valley.

2. AI x Cybersecurity w/Kevin Mandia, Rami Habal, Jake Seid, and Loris Degioanni

   Ayman went to a cybersecurity happy hour, hosted at a $68M estate in the SF Bay Area! It was hosted by a hacker house called AGI House.