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"Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land." ~ Ecclesiastes 11:2 There are several IT companies in diverse specialisations that I have co- founded in the last one year or so. Amongst these is Centipid Technologies- https://lnkd.in/dgPYCs_i that I co- founded with Fabian Muema and that, inter alia, offers remote network monitoring and internet control solutions. My biggest motivation for this was to increase workplace productivity by effectively detecting and dealing with network downtime issues and optimising internet usage at workplace through detection or elimination of incidents of overload or abuse for non-work related purposes. For example, this solution gives an employer or an education institution a tool to block or restrict some or all unwanted social media sites at their workplace or institution. Similarly, they can also detect and block any malware. For homes, this solution enables the parents and guardians to protect children from harmful social media sites and give them control of the sites that their kids can virtually visit or access. By the way, our group has a company that offers CTO as a service solutions- including for equity consideration. Therefore, if you know of any young person or tech-startup that want help in actualising their idea or innovation, you can always inbox me.

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Is it an element to consider as part of cibersecurity strategies?

It was a pleasure to speak this week with Mike Foster of Family Capital Publishing about how the Crowdstrike "bug" affected family offices and, to his good question, how this relates to the need for a “foreign secretary” function in a family office that is global. Over the last several years, we have helped a number of family offices respond to cyber actors intruding into their investments and operations, as well as some situations that have been ambiguous. Family offices are targeted for many reasons, including that they are seen as easy targets for ransom. I would share a few lessons learned from having to dive deep into these client issues and a few trials by fire: 1. Red-team your own systems before you need to.  By pressure-testing your people, practices and settings, you can reduce a large amount of risk upfront.  Let’s assume that you can take 50-80% of risk factors off the table in a 2-3 month period by taking good advice. 2. Have your experts ready in the wings.  Nobody is immune from a hack or a glitch.  If and when you have an incident – or you fear that you might – you want to have advisors who already know you and have some familiarity with your organization. This will create a faster and more effective response. 3. As time goes on, the world is becoming more and more transparent. Whether we like it or not, technology continues to provide new means of research, intrusion and disclosure.  Government agencies in countries not aligned with the West are pouring billions of dollars into building capabilities. We have not yet seen the impact of quantum computing powering the combinatorial mathematics of various hacking methods, but this will happen and will leave many feeling naked. AI we are seeing already. 4. In the long run, true resilience comes from upstanding conduct. If you can never guarantee 100% privacy in the future, consider what we used to call the "Washington Post Test". Even if uncomfortable to do, could you stand by your words and actions if they were made public? 5. Make sure that a hack or a leak is not all that people know about you. Having some level of managed reputation (i.e., not attempting to be fully anonymous) is also something that more family offices are undertaking, so that they have a greater level of reputational resilience. (J. Peter Donald has been big on this theme.) UBS recent family office report cited cyber risks as one of the top issues concerning leading family offices in 2024. This is yet another way that the “global surface area” continues to expand for family offices as they grow, requiring greater management of that interface with global forces and actors. . . . . . #familyoffice #investment #management

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Evolution Equity Partners announced the final closing of Evolution Technology Fund III, LP and total capital commitments of $1.1 billion to back visionary entrepreneurs building next-generation #cybersecurity companies that safeguard the digital world. The fundraise was oversubscribed by existing and new limited partners representing a diversified mix of leading institutions, sovereign investors, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, fund of funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. The capital committed gives Evolution Equity Partners a dedicated pool of capital to pursue opportunities for investment ranging from $20 million to $150 million in cybersecurity and in companies utilizing #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) to build market leading platforms. Significant investments made to date by Evolution include Arctic Wolf, Protect AI, Talon (by Palo Alto Networks), Torq, Snyk, Sweet Security, Aqua Security, Oleria Security, Halcyon, CybSafe, Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc., SecurityScorecard, Defined.ai, Carbon Black, Panaseer, AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Pentera, and Quantexa amongst 60 portfolio companies the firm has backed.

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