💰 Security, Funded #34

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Funding edged up slightly this past week and cybersecurity acquisitions are on a tear with Google's announcement to acquire Mandiant. This acquisition is a defining moment for cybersecurity firms and for the large FAANG players of the world.

Also for the first time, today's newsletter sponsor, SafeBase, is mentioned IN the newsletter for raising their Series A. 👏

This is obviously proof that once you sponsor this newsletter, the VC funding will come out of the woodwork. 😂📈💰🤝

Funding by product category

💰 Summary

11 companies raised $306.9M across 9 unique product categories
6 companies were acquired or had a merger event

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🏢 By Company

Axonius, an attack surface management (ASM) platform, raised a $200.0M Series E.
Cybersixgill, a cyber threat intelligence platform, raised a $35.0M Series B.
Cider Security, a platform focused on security of software delivery pipelines (CI/CD), raised a $32.0M Series A.
SafeBase, a platform helping companies present their security program to speed up the third-party security assessment process, raised an $18.0M Series A.
Getvisibility, a data protection company helping financial services get insight into unstructured data, raised a $10.9M Series A.
Cider Security, a platform focused on the security of software delivery pipelines (CI/CD), raised a $6.0M Series A.
Cydarm, a collaborative incident response case management platform, raised a $3.0M Venture Round.
AugmentedCISO, a chief information security officer (CISO)-as-a-Service company, raised a $1.7M Seed.
Threatrix, an open-source vulnerability and software supply chain risk platform, raised a $300.0K Pre-Seed.
QuintessenceLabs, a quantum encryption security company, raised an undisclosed Venture Round.
Superna, a data center security company focused on disaster recovery and ransomware defense, raised an undisclosed Private Equity Round.

🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions

Alert Logic, a managed security operations center (MSOC) platform, was acquired by HelpSystems.
Ansec IA, a professional services company focusing on cybersecurity, was acquired by Outsource Solutions.
Integra Networks, a managed security services provider (MSSP), was acquired by Plurilock for $940.0K.
Mandiant, a professional services company focusing on cyber incident response and forensics, was acquired by Google for $5.4B.
Threat Status, a platform for monitoring the dark web for leaked corporate user credentials, was acquired by Crossword Cybersecurity for $1.9M.
vCORE Technology Partners, a managed security services provider (MSSP), was acquired by AHEAD.

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📅 Events

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2022 Blu Cyber Summit and Cyber Tank Pitch CompetitionNetwork with investors, founders, and the cyber startup community and apply to pitch live on stage for a shot at up to a $250K investment.The 2022 Blu Cyber Summit, now in its fourth year, is a premier cybersecurity startup event on the East Coast. The event – which takes place on May 10-11 in North Bethesda, MD, just outside of Washington, DC – brings together startups, investors, CISOs, and cybersecurity professionals for the primary purpose of opening doors for the next deal, whether that be your next sale, your next fundraise, an exit, or anything in between.As a partner of Blu Ventures, we are happy to provide our readers with a 10% discount code for the event, 'SecFun22'. P.S. I'll be there, so let's meetup!You can learn more and get your tickets here: www.blucybersummit.com.

📚 Great Reads & Finds

Making Sense of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847) - On Monday 7th March, a vulnerability in the Linux Kernel was disclosed publicly which could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability discovered by Max Kellermann called “Dirty Pipe”.
DevSecOps Playbook - This playbook will help you introduce effective DevSecOps practices in your company, regardless of size. Following this playbook will help teams build materially more secure applications, and that in the end, is the intent.
Not everything needs to be an NFT - Daniel Miessler's take on why everything doesn't have to come with an NFT version.

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