Press Releases

Salt Security, the API security company, is working with Guild Education, the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, to implement the Salt Security API Protection Platform to secure its growing application programming interface (API) ecosystem. Guild relies on APIs for the exchange of private and sensitive student, employer, and school data across its Career Opportunity Platform. With the Salt platform, Guild gains automatic and continuous API visibility, insights into potential data exposure, and API...

CyberSmart has announced the completion of its Series B funding round, raising an additional £12.75 million following its initial Series A investment of over £8 million.  Oxx led the oversubscribed round, with participation from British Patient Capital, Legal & General Capital and Solano Partners, alongside IQ Capital, which backed the company since its seed stage, and other returning investors: Eos Venture Partners, Winton Ventures and Seedcamp. This financial backing will facilitate CyberSmart’s accelerated product development, strengthen channel partnerships, as well as propel the...

Salt Security has increased signed partners and deal registrations as global enterprises accelerate adoption of dedicated API security to protect their critical digital innovation initiatives. The API security company announced it has experienced strong worldwide channel growth, expanded coverage globally and launched the Essential Partner Certification Program, further enhancing the support and training offered to its global partners and allowing them to provide a better customer experience. At the same time, Salt reported that it...

Armis, the asset visibility and security company that recently became cybersecurity's newest centaur, has announced the promotion of Brian Gumbel to President with immediate effect. The company says Gumbel will provide enhanced go-to-market (GTM) strategic guidance across the entire business, as it continues to accelerate its growth and prepares for a future IPO. Brian will directly report to Yevgeny Dibrov, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Armis, and continue to be a member of Armis’...

Armis, the asset visibility and security provider, announced today that it has surpassed the 100m USD mark in annual recurring revenue (ARR) growing from 1m USD to 100m USD in less than 5 years. This, it says, makes the company one of the fastest-growing centaurs in the SaaS and cloud technology space and the fastest-growing cyber start-up for asset visibility, intelligence and security.    “Making centaur status so quickly is testament to the business use...

Cato Networks today announced that it was named as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” by GigaOm in the analyst firm’s Radar for SD-WAN Report. This is the first year that Cato was included in the report, alongside 19 other notable vendors in the SD-WAN market. Despite Cato’s “freshman” status, GigaOm rates Cato an Outperformer overall and at the top of the list in both Key Criteria capabilities and Evaluation Metrics. Figure 1: The GigaOm SD-WAN Radar...

Salt Security, the leading API security company, today announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program as a Build Partner. With the partnership, users can now access the Salt Security API Protection Platform directly from the Google Cloud Marketplace. This gives Google Cloud customers the ability to quickly and easily leverage the Salt Security API Protection Platform, gaining deep context for API discovery, attack detection and prevention, and shift-left capabilities.  As a...

KnowBe4 has announced the results of its 2022 and Q4 2022 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked in phishing tests, top attack vector types, holiday phishing email subjects and more insightful information that reveal the most popular phishing email tactics. Phishing emails continue to be one of the most common and effective methods to maliciously impact a variety of organisations around the world – everyone is a potential victim. Cybercriminals...

Researchers at Chainanalysis have released the ransomware section of their 2023 Crypto Crime report, revealing that ransomware payments fell from $766m in 2021 to $457m in 2022 Chainanalysis was quick to point out that this does not mean attacks are down, or at least not as much as the drastic dropoff in payments would suggest. Much of the decline is due to victim organisations increasingly refusing to pay ransomware attackers.  One major factor in victim...

Keeper Security, the provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, secrets and connections, has provided an update to its Keeper Connection Manager (KCM), which gives DevOps and IT teams instant access to RDP, SSH, database and Kubernetes endpoints through a web browser- with no VPN required. New in version 2.11.0, KCM is now able to interact directly with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases. This functionality allows organisations to grant administrators access to...