Tag: ceo
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Cybereason CEO Sues to Halt Deadlock Over Critical Funding
Chapter 11 Looms as Eric Gan Seeks Custodian and Liberty, SoftBank Block Financing. Cybereason faces a crisis as a boardroom deadlock halts financing efforts. CEO Eric Gan and his family firm seek a custodian to halt the impasse, alleging SoftBank and Liberty Strategic Capital are prioritizing control over the company’s financial stability. Without urgent funding,…
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Docker Inc. CEO swap has analysts anticipating a sale
Industry watchers see the takeover by a former Oracle exec as the precursor to merging with a broader software development portfolio at a larger company. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/news/366619297/Docker-Inc-CEO-swap-has-analysts-anticipating-a-sale
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Cybereason CEO: Mnuchin, SoftBank Pushing Company To Bankruptcy
Eric Gan, the ex-SoftBank executive, who took over as CEO of Cybereason in 2023, is suing SoftBank and Liberty Capital, claiming its largest investors are blocking much-needed financial proposals and driving the cybersecurity firm toward bankruptcy. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/cybereason-ceo-mnuchin-softbank-pushing-company-to-bankruptcy/
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Sophos CEO On New Enterprise, SIEM Opportunities With Secureworks Acquisition
Sophos’ $859 million acquisition of Secureworks will give the cybersecurity vendor a ‘much better competency’ on serving the enterprise segment while also adding new capabilities in areas such as next-gen SIEM, Sophos CEO Joe Levy tells CRN in an interview. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/sophos-ceo-on-new-enterprise-siem-opportunities-with-secureworks-acquisition
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QuSecure CEO Rebecca Krauthamer on AI and Quantum Security
New CEO Emphasizes Cryptographic Agility, Aims to Simplify Post-Quantum Migration. Rebecca Krauthamer steps into the CEO role at QuSecure, leading the company’s efforts in post-quantum cryptography. With fresh funding from Two Bear Capital and Accenture, she focuses on cryptographic agility to help organizations transition to quantum-safe encryption and thwart AI-driven threats. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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CEO testifies on federal agencies as lawmakers clash on Musk
Axon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith testified that federal agencies like the FTC engage in regulatory overreach and that their power should receive more oversight. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchcio/news/366619010/CEO-testifies-on-federal-agencies-as-lawmakers-clash-on-Musk
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Beyond the paycheck: What cybersecurity professionals really want
Tags: business, ceo, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, india, jobs, regulation, risk, risk-management, service, skills, strategy, trainingInvest in skills and allow room for growth: Upskilling also remains a powerful retention tool. As Huber points out, Tenable invests in training entire teams on emerging technologies and capabilities, ensuring that employees feel equipped and valued.Similarly, KPMG has implemented targeted programs to support diversity and career progression within cybersecurity. The firm’s Cyber Women Leads…
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UK monitoring group to classify cyber incidents on earthquake-like scale
Risk management: The CMC hopes this increased understanding will spur the development of improved incident response planning. Experts quizzed by CSO on CMC welcomed its launch.Ivan Milenkovich, vice president of cyber risk technology in EMEA at Qualys, said data from the CMC has the potential to allow IT security professionals to make better risk assessments,…
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CEOs must act now to embrace AI or risk falling behind
While 4 out of 5 CEOs recognize AI’s potential, many worry gaps in their understanding will impact strategic decisions, risking missed opportunities and falling behind … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/12/ceos-ai-potential/
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Tines Raises $125M to Expand Security Automation, Agentic AI
Workflow Automation Leader Reaches $1.125B Unicorn Valuation, Eyes AI-Driven Growth. Security automation firm Tines has secured $125 million in Series C funding, pushing its valuation to $1.125 billion. CEO Eoin Hinchy says the company will invest in AI, expand beyond security into IT and infrastructure, and enhance agentic AI capabilities to drive mission-critical automation. First…
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Altman Rejects Musk’s $97.4B Offer for OpenAI
Offer Comes Amid Legal Battle Between the Former OpenAI Co-Founders. Elon Musk has reportedly offered to buy OpenAI’s operating assets for $97.4 billion, escalating his legal and business battle with the artificial intelligence company’s CEO Sam Altman. Altman dismissed the offer and said he will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion – if Musk is interested.…
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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025: Takeaways, reflections, and learnings for the future
Tags: attack, best-practice, ceo, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, finance, fortinet, group, intelligence, international, law, lessons-learned, mitigation, open-source, organized, risk, strategy, tactics, technology, threatIncreasingly sophisticated threat actors in the evolving cybersecurity landscape In a world where cybercriminals often operate with a level of efficiency mirroring that of Fortune 500 companies, it is essential that we look to ways we can better collaborate to counter them. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of room for improvement; in 2023, 87%…
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WTF? Why the cybersecurity sector is overrun with acronyms
, a global online news organization. Let’s put it this way: Many academics, regardless of their area of expertise, have never met an acronym they didn’t prefer to typing out the entire phrase. That means our copyediting efforts too often involve spelling out or removing acronyms throughout, much to the chagrin of some of our…
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Industrie sollte Cybersicherheit in Geräten, Maschinen und Anlagen auf ihre Agenda 2025 setzen
OT+IoT Cybersicherheitsreport: Wirtschaft hat ein zu niedriges Budget für Cybersicherheit. Jan Wendenburg, CEO ONEKEY: »Unternehmen sollten auf Cybervorfall vorbereitet sein.« Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) hat ermittelt, dass jeden Monat durchschnittlich mehr als 2.000 neue Schwachstellen in Software bekannt werden, von denen etwa 15 Prozent als »kritisch« eingestuft werden. »Angesichts dieser… First…
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The Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers Push to Ban DeepSeek App From U.S. Government Devices
Bipartisan Effort Seeks to Protect National Security Amid Concerns Over Chinese Data Collection WASHINGTON”, A new bill set to be introduced Thursday was initiated based on an analysis by Ivan Tsarynny , CEO of Feroot Security, which uncovered serious security risks posed by the DeepSeek chatbot application. The findings by Feroot Security, first reported by…
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French AI Action Summit, What Can We Expect?
Summit to Focus on Open-Source, AI Governance and Development. The historic presidential Élysée Palace in Central Paris will host world leaders, tech CEOs and researchers for the French AI Action Summit, a two-day event that will commence on Monday. U.S. Vice President JD Vance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai will be on…
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SolarWinds to Be Purchased By Turn/River Capital for $4.4B
CEO: Going Private Will Help SolarWinds Expand Its Operational Resilience Vision. SolarWinds agreed to be bought by Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion just six years after the observability and IT management software firm went public. The proposed deal will help SolarWinds expand its vision in operational resilience and ensure the company’s IT infrastructure remains robust.…
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Worker distraction is on the rise. Digital employee experience (DEX) platforms can help
With the dramatic increase in remote work in the last few years, many of us are actually working longer hours, ricocheting between communication platforms, learning new systems on the fly, and struggling to fix our own tech issues.It’s all adding up to a new kind of burnoutIt’s also focusing renewed attention on the digital employee experience…
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21% of CISOs pressured to not report compliance issues
Tags: awareness, breach, business, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, dora, finance, framework, governance, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, nis-2, regulation, resilience, risk, security-incident, trainingCISOs are increasingly getting caught between business pressures and regulatory obligations, leaving them struggling to balance corporate loyalty and legal accountability.To wit: One in five (21%) security leaders have been pressured by other executives or board members not to report compliance issues at their companies, according to a recent study by security vendor Splunk.The same…
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The overlooked risks of poor data hygiene in AI-driven organizations
In this Help Net Security interview, Oliver Friedrichs, CEO at Pangea, discusses why strong data hygiene is more important than ever as companies integrate AI into their … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/06/oliver-friedrichs-pangea-data-hygiene/
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DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has ‘read-only’ access to US Treasury payment system
CEO of Cloud Software a ‘special government employee’ probing through IT for Elon Musk’s DOGE First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/tom_krause_treasury_read_only_access/
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Cynet’s New CEO Jason Magee Seeks Scalable US Market Growth
Former ConnectWise CEO Plans US Growth, Operational Maturity, Product Innovation. Jason Magee, newly appointed CEO of Cynet, wants to grow the company’s presence in the U.S. He aims to increase domestic revenue to 60%, expand partnerships and refine Cynet’s all-in-one security platform. His leadership strategy also prioritizes the education, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. First seen…
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Palantir designed to ‘power the West to its obvious innate superiority,’ says CEO
Um, does anyone wanna switch seats? First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/palantir_karp_comments/
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It pays to know how your cybersecurity stacks up
Like all other business leaders, chief information security officers (CISOs) could find themselves on the unemployment line if something on their watch goes seriously sideways.But what if CISOs simply aren’t demonstrating enough business value?With companies cutting costs, proving cybersecurity programs are good for the business has become vital to protecting budgets and jobs. That’s why…
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Musk’s DOGE effort could spread malware, expose US systems to threat actors
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, ceo, cio, computer, computing, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, exploit, governance, government, hacking, infection, infosec, international, jobs, malicious, malware, network, office, privacy, ransomware, risk, service, technology, threat, toolOver the past 10 days, an astonishing series of actions by Elon Musk via his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project has elevated the cybersecurity risk of some of the most sensitive computing systems in the US government. Musk and his team of young, inexperienced engineers, at least one of whom is not a US…
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AMD patches microcode security holes after accidental early disclosure
AMD on Monday issued two patches for severe microcode security flaws, defects that AMD said “could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) protection.” The bugs were inadvertently revealed by a partner last week. The most dangerous time for this kind of security hole is right after it is disclosed and before patches…
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New Microsoft Unit to Navigate Impact of AI
‘Advanced Planning Unit’ to Focus on Societal, Economic, Workplace Implications. Microsoft has created a new research-focused entity as part of its artificial intelligence division to analyze and anticipate the technology’s societal, economic and workplace implications. It will report directly to Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/new-microsoft-unit-to-navigate-impact-ai-a-27436
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Sophos finalizes $859 million acquisition of rival Secureworks
Sophos has announced the completion of its $859 million acquisition of Secureworks. The deal makes Sophos one of the largest providers of managed detection and response (MDR) services, with the company now supporting more than 28,000 businesses around the world.According to the companies, the acquisition will enable Sophos to offer a best-in-class, open, and scalable…
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Sophos schließt Übernahme von Secureworks ab
Sophos und Secureworks haben heute offiziell den Abschluss der Übernahme von Secureworks durch Sophos bekannt gegeben. Dazu ein Statement von Sophos-CEO Joe Levy: ‘Heute ist erst Tag 1 für uns als gemeinsames Unternehmen, aber wir haben bereits eine vollständige und klare Roadmap für den gemeinsamen Weg in die Zukunft. Durch die Nutzung des kombinierten Fachwissens…
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39% of IT leaders fear major incident due to excessive workloads
Enterprise security operations teams find themselves stretched thin and contending with an escalating cyber threat landscape today. Many are understaffed and underfunded, leaving CISOs on edge about the consequences for the enterprise, and their careers.A recent survey from Adaptavist about fallout from last summer’s CrowdStrike outage found that two out of five (39%) IT leaders…