Tag: ceo
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Bretton AI Gets $75M to Use AI for Financial Crime Compliance
AI Agents Target Anti-Money Laundering at Major Global Banks, Cut Manual Probes. Bretton AI has raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Sapphire Ventures to scale AI agents for anti-money laundering sanctions and KYC compliance. CEO Will Lawrence says the company is targeting large banks with automation designed to reduce manual investigations and…
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Bitcoin trading firm CEO gets 20 years for operating $200 million Ponzi scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice sentenced the CEO of a multi level marketing and bitcoin trading firm to 20 years in prison after a conviction for wire fraud and money … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/13/bitcoin-prison-200-million-ponzi-scheme/
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Bretton Raises $75M to Use AI for Financial Crime Compliance
AI Agents Target Anti-Money Laundering at Major Global Banks, Cut Manual Probes. Bretton AI has raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Sapphire Ventures to scale AI agents for anti-money laundering sanctions and KYC compliance. CEO Will Lawrence says the company is targeting large banks with automation designed to reduce manual investigations and…
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Dutch mobile phone giant Odido announces data breach
In a statement about the incident, Odido CEO Søren Abildgaard said names, bank account numbers, addresses, mobile numbers, email addresses, account numbers and IDs were stolen. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/dutch-telecom-giant-announces-data-breach
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Next Gen Spotlights: Creating Quiet in Moments of Noise QA with Richard Allmendinger, CEO and Co-Founder of Veribee
Veribee is on a mission to reduce noise for software teams, by striving to minimise alert-heavy tools that create noise, as opposed to confidence in what’s actually secure. As one survey found, over two-thirds of security teams receive over 2,000 alerts a day (roughly one alert every 42 seconds), with 92% reporting missed or uninvestigated…
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Cryptohack Roundup: 20 Years for $73 Million Scam
Also: SafeMoon CEO Gets 8 Years for Fraud, SBF Seeks New Trial. This week, a 20-year sentence in a $73 million scam, SafeMoon CEO got eight years for fraud, Sam Bankman-Fried sought a new trial, Epstein’s early crypto investments, a U.K. lawsuit against HTX, a probe of a Trump-linked crypto deal, a crypto-linked home invasion…
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When security decisions come too late, and attackers know it
In this Help Net Security, Chris O’Ferrell, CEO at CodeHunter, talks about why malware keeps succeeding, where attackers insert malicious code in the SDLC, and how CI/CD … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/12/chris-oferrell-codehunter-behavioral-intent-analysis-malware-detection/
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Barracuda CEO Rohit Ghai On Accelerating ‘True Platform’ In Security For MSPs
Barracuda Networks sees a massive opportunity to drive “platformization” for resource-constrained SMBs and midmarket customers by accelerating the company’s investments into MSP partners in the coming year, according to Barracuda CEO Rohit Ghai. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/barracuda-ceo-rohit-ghai-on-accelerating-true-platform-in-security-for-msps
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Reco Secures $30M as Enterprises Struggle With Governing AI
Series B Funding Targets AI Agent Security Across Hundreds of SaaS Apps. Reco’s $30 million Series B round will fuel expansion of its AI SaaS governance platform as enterprises adopt generative AI at scale. CEO Ofer Klein says traditional security tools can’t keep up with the explosion of AI agents embedded across SaaS environments. First…
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Anthropic’s DXT poses “critical RCE vulnerability” by running with full system privileges
Difference are ‘stark’: Principal AI Security Researcher at LayerX Security Roy Paz said that he tested DXT against Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and Microsoft’s CoPilot, and the differences were stark.”When you ask Copilot, Atlas, or Perplexity to use a tool, then it will use that tool for you. But Claude DXT allows tools to talk…
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Anthropic’s DXT poses “critical RCE vulnerability” by running with full system privileges
Difference are ‘stark’: Principal AI Security Researcher at LayerX Security Roy Paz said that he tested DXT against Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s Atlas, and Microsoft’s CoPilot, and the differences were stark.”When you ask Copilot, Atlas, or Perplexity to use a tool, then it will use that tool for you. But Claude DXT allows tools to talk…
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Orion Secures $32M to Target DLP’s False Positive Problem
CEO Nitay Milner Says Large Language Models Cut False Positives and Policy Sprawl. Orion Security has secured $32 million in Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners to replace policy-driven data loss prevention with large language models. CEO Nitay Milner says AI enables real-time context that legacy DLP tools can’t achieve at scale. First…
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Zscaler Purchases SquareX to Secure Browsers Without Agents
CEO Jay Chaudhry: SquareX Deal Targets Unmanaged Devices and Third-Party Access. Zscaler has acquired SquareX to deliver browser security through extensions rather than endpoint agents or stand-alone browsers. CEO Jay Chaudhry said the approach speeds deployment, improves security for unmanaged devices, and accelerates time-to-market by up to a year. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Radicl Brings In $31M to Push AI-Driven SOC Toward Autonomy
Series A Funding Accelerates AI-Native Detection and Response Roadmap. With $31 million in new Series A funding, Radicl plans to accelerate development of an autonomous security operations platform for midmarket organizations. CEO Chris Petersen said the company is focused on improving detection accuracy and trust to enable automated response at scale. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Zscaler extends zero-trust security to browsers with SquareX acquisition
Tags: access, ai, ceo, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, edr, endpoint, least-privilege, network, risk, service, strategy, tool, vpn, zero-trustA win-win for customers?: Zscaler has acknowledged that browser runtime behaviour was a missing piece in its zero-trust security, and having SquareX solution in its portfolio can help fill the gap, noted Gogia.For Zscaler customers, this acquisition would mean browser security is no longer an afterthought or a separate tool to evaluate but a native…
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Next Gen Spotlights: AI Assurance for Autonomous Systems QA with CybPass CEO PingChen Lin
CybPass is on a mission to ensure that autonomous systems, from drones and robotics to self-driving vehicles, are safe, secure and ready for real-world deployment. In an era of fast, AI-driven automation, this is becoming increasingly important. We spoke with co-founder and CEO PingChen Lin about turning academic research into a commercial venture, the unique…
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KI als AWS-Angriffsturbo
Kriminelle Hacker haben ihre Angriffe auf AWS-Umgebungen mit KI beschleunigt.Forscher des Sicherheitsanbieters Sysdig haben einen Angriff aufgedeckt, bei dem kriminelle Angreifer eine AWS-Umgebung in weniger als acht Minuten vollständig kompromittieren konnten. Laut den Threat-Spezialisten nutzten die Bedrohungsakteure dabei eine Cloud-Fehlkonfiguration mit der Hilfe von Large Language Models (LLMs) aus, um den gesamten Angriffs-Lebenszyklus zu komprimieren…
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Fortinet Is ‘Only Leader’ In Sovereign SASE Market: CEO Ken Xie
Fortinet is seeing a surge in customer demand for its SASE (secure access service edge) platform, driven by unique capabilities including a sovereign SASE version of the offering, according to Fortinet Co-founder and CEO Ken Xie. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/fortinet-is-only-leader-in-sovereign-sase-market-ceo-ken-xie
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Varonis Acquires AllTrue.ai to Extend Security for AI Agents
Varonis CEO Yaki Faitelson Warns Misconfigured AI Is an Accident Waiting to Happen. Varonis has acquired AllTrue.ai to close visibility gaps in AI security. CEO Yaki Faitelson said enterprises are deploying AI agents that access vast datasets at high speed without understanding permissions identity context or abnormal behavior creating urgent demand for data-first AI security.…
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Microsoft Brings Back Google’s Hayete Gallot to Run Security
CEO Nadella Names Gallot EVP, Current Head Charlie Bell Takes New Engineering Role. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced leadership changes tied to security and engineering quality including Hayete Gallot’s return from Google as EVP of security and a new individual contributor role for current security leader Charlie Bell focused on engineering quality. First seen on…
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Microsoft Overhauls Security Leadership as AI Expands Enterprise Attack Surface
Microsoft brings back Hayete Gallot to lead Security while Charlie Bell moves to an engineering quality mandate, both reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. The post Microsoft Overhauls Security Leadership as AI Expands Enterprise Attack Surface appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-gallot-security-bell-engineering-quality/
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Orchid Security Adds Ability to Audit Behaviors by Identity
Orchid Security today added an ability to conduct audits to its platform that enables cybersecurity teams to track behaviors of specific identities. Company CEO Roy Katmor said Identity Audit is designed to make it possible to unify proprietary audit data captured from unmanaged applications with audit logs data collected from third-party identity and access management..…
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Microsoft develops a new scanner to detect hidden backdoors in LLMs
Effectiveness of the scanner: Microsoft said the scanner does not require retraining models or prior knowledge of backdoor behavior and operates using forward passes only, avoiding gradient calculations or backpropagation to keep computing costs low.The company also said it works with most causal, GPT-style language models and can be used across a wide range of…
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TRM Labs Raises $70M Series C for AI Crime-Fighting Push
Funding at $1B Valuation Targets AI-Driven Investigations and Compliance Tools. TRM Labs has secured $70 million in Series C funding led by Blockchain Capital reaching a $1 billion valuation. CEO Esteban Castano says the money will boost AI-powered investigations, compliance automation and intelligence as criminals use AI to scale cybercrime faster than defenders can respond.…
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Semperis Buys MightyID to Expand Identity Security
Acquisition Adds Okta and Ping Coverage to Semperis’ Identity Security Platform. Semperis has acquired MightyID to extend its identity-first security and cyber resilience strategy beyond Active Directory and Entra ID into Okta and Ping. CEO Mickey Bresman says the deal addresses customer demand for multi-identity provider protection backup recovery and migration. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…