Latest #SecMoves & Funding Rounds this week.

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LATEST TRADES POWERED BY #SecMoves

Vendors & Services

John Maddison has been named Chief Product Marketing & Technology Alliances Officer at F5

Madison Mooney has been named Director, Business Development at Tokio Marine HCC

Martin Sajon has been named CEO at /q99

Mark M. has been named CFO at Dragos, Inc.

Stephanie Webb has been named VP, Sales International at Beazley Security

Danny Bloomfield has been named VP, Enterprise Sales & Partnerships at FenixPyre

Jonathan Levin has been named CEO at Chainalysis

Deepak Dalvi has been named Head of Products - SaaS & AI at BlueVoyant

Linda Smith has been named Director, Crisis & Incident Response at Deloitte

Alyssa Kohlenberg (Vircks) has been named Senior Growth Manager at Symmetry Systems

Peter Sprenger has been named Field CTO at Splunk

Jason Lewkowicz has been named MD, Cybersecurity at EY

Christopher Lehman has been named President, Field Operations at ThreatConnect

Kane Lightowler has been named President & COO at Veza

Jorge Castano has been named Channel Sales Executive at Huntress

Enterprise

Mariangela Taylor has been named Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence & Insider Threat at AstraZeneca

Yassir Abousselham has been named CISO at Calendly

Joseph Opacki has been named SVP, Cyber Threat Intelligence Executive at Bank of America

Phil Beyer has been named Head of Security at Flex

Adam DeMonaco has been named CISO at Rakuten Rewards

Shiraz Saeed has been named SVP, Product Leader - Cyber & Tech Risk at ARC Excess & Surplus, LLC

Cliff Donathan has been named Principal Technologist, Responsible AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Umesh Yerram has been named CISO at FactSet

Jean C. González（致远） has been named Director, Cybersecurity at National Basketball Association (NBA)

Nitin Prabhu has been named Global Head of Digital Consumer Bank at Santander

Bo Berlas has been named CISO at Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS)

Greg Barnes has been named Global CISO at Regeneron

Sam Bisbee has been named VP, Information Security at DraftKings Inc.

Peter Hawley has been named International Head of Cyber at Everest

LATEST FUNDING ROUNDS IN CYBERSECURITY

Sublime Security has raise $60 million at Series B led by IVP

• Sublime prevents email attacks using AI and a transparent detection engine.

Keepit has raised $50 million led by One Peak

• Streamline your #SaaS backup & recovery with Keepit.

Astrix Security raises $45 million at Series B led by Menlo Ventures

• Astrix Security is the first platform purposely built to control and manage the lifecycle of non-human identities, helping enterprises like NetApp, Figma and Agoda control their NHI attack surface and prevent supply chain attacks.

Flare has raised $30 million at Series B led by Base10 Partners

• The Flare Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution empowers organizations to proactively detect, prioritize, and mitigate the types of exposures commonly exploited by threat actors.

Ask Sage, Inc. has raised $17 million at Series A led by Sapphire Ventures

• Ask Sage is a Secure & Extensible Multi-modal Generative AI platform that specializes in enabling secure access to Generative AI models for both government and commercial teams.

Silent Push has raised $10 million led by Ten Eleven Ventures

• Discover unknown threats with Indicators of Future Attacks (IOFAs).

Netacea has raised $4 million led by Mercia Ventures

• Netacea is a behavior-based bot management solution that protects enterprise businesses from ever-changing automated threats.

ETHIACK has raised $4 million at seed led by Explorer

• Ethiack is the Ethical Hacking platform for the digital age.

Prequel.dev has raised $3.3 million at seed led by Work-Bench

• Your real-time problem detection and resolution platform.

Senteon Managed Endpoint Hardening has raised at seed from Gula Tech Adventures, Lytical Ventures, SaaS Ventures, and Blu Ventures

• Senteon is a cutting-edge cybersecurity platform designed to automate and streamline the process of system hardening for workstations, servers, and browsers.

LATEST ACQUISITIONS IN CYBERSECURITY

🇺🇸 Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance Inc. for $160 million 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Cyderes has acquired Outpost Security 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Fortinet has acquired Perception Point 🇮🇱

🇺🇸 LexisNexis has acquired IDVerse - An OCR Labs Company 🇬🇧

🇺🇸 Pango Group has acquired Total Security Limited 🇬🇧

🇺🇸 Dentity has acquired Trinsic SSI assets 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Apiro has acquired Securitybricks, Inc. 🇺🇸

EVENTS

IdentityShield Summit, Pune, India: 11-12 January

Los Angeles Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and California, US: 16 January

19th Global Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Engineering (GCCSCE), Sydney, Australia: 17-19 January

Cybersec Asia 2025, Bangkok, Thailand: 22-23 January

Chicago Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and Illinois, US: 23 January

BSidesPanamá, Panama city, Panama: 23-25 January

SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit & Training, virtual and Virginia, US: 27 January – 3 February

CISO-CIO Forum, California, US: 29 January

Cybersecurity Law and Compliance, Washington, DC, US: 29-30 January

Dallas Cybersecurity Conference, virtual and Texas, US: 30 January

Security Leadership, Bunnik, Netherlands: 6 February

BSidesAbuja, Abuja, Nigeria: 8 February

CruiseCon, departs from Florida, US: 8-13 February

BSidesICS/OT, Florida, US: 10 February

Unhacked International Cybersecurity Conference, Vienna, Austria: 10-12 February

HackCon, Oslo, Norway: 12-13 February

Intellic0n, Texas, US: 18-19 February

Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2025, TBC: 19-20 February

RuhrSec, Bochum, Germany: 20-21 February

BSidesGalway, Galway, Ireland: 22 February

Sunshine CyberCon, Florida, US: 24-25 February

SANS OSINT Summit & Training, virtual and Virginia, US: 24 February – 3 March

Cosac APAC, Melbourne, Australia: 25-27 February

Detroit Cybersecurity Conference, Michigan, US: 26 February

Planet Cyber Sec Conference, California, US: 26 February

Re//verse, Florida, US: 28 February-1 March

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